Definitions for tacky

tacky tack·y

Spelling: [tak-ee]
IPA: /ˈtæk i/

Tacky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in tacky (ackty).

Definitions for tacky

adjective

  1. sticky to the touch; adhesive.
  2. not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
  3. shabby in appearance; shoddy:
  4. crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
  5. gaudy; flashy; showy.

Origin of tacky

First recorded in 1780-90; tack1 + -y1

Examples for tacky

It has been stated that sound rubber left in contact with tacky specimens was found to be unaffected after two years.

This effect is further magnified if the “tacky” piece of rubber is packed in close contact with previously unaffected rubber.

There is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction that tacky rubber should be excluded from contact with sound rubber.

At the Met, jewels by JAR may be tacky junk, but they tell us about ourselves.

“All of the ideas were so awful and tacky so I said no,” she says.

Yes, the tabloids can be tacky, sensationalist, intentionally misleading, and ethically suspect.

Some of the sweaters he thought were true works of art, and some he thought were just tacky or funny.

When the glaire has ceased to be “tacky,” the gold is laid on.

Madison, my first town, showed me that my clothes were homemade and tacky.

It was timeless, that wacky, tacky character she created; the cigarette holder was genius, paradoxically regal.

Word Value for tacky
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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