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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tacky way" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is considered cheap, gaudy, or in poor taste.
Example: "She decorated her house in a tacky way, with bright colors and mismatched furniture."
Alternatives: "a cheesy manner" or "a kitschy style".
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"We want to do it not in a tacky way, to make it feel chic," said Jones.
But given that Destructive has chosen to parrot American mass shootings in such a tacky way, I doubt they have the intellect to empathise with anyone at all, let alone with society's stance on what is and isn't acceptable.
He was able to do that because of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, so we have the justices to thank for any befuddlement about (a) whether the active ingredient in Friess's formula was the aspirin, or whether it was just a tacky way of saying that a "gal" should keep her legs together; and (b) why on earth anyone is spending time on (a).
That was obviously just a tacky way for Microsoft to get a number "8" that would match its own IE8, for branding and marketing purposes.
(How could a free boob job contest possibly be executed in a tacky way?).
"I wanted an attention grabber," Sean Coughlin, manager of Bayou nightclub, and organizer of the event, told The Buffalo News Monday, adding, "As bad as the promotion sounds, I don't want it executed in a tacky way".
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("Mr. Furley! It's not that kind of pot!") Ms. Tylor is prettier than Ms. Somers, who was sexy in an endearingly tacky way that made her one of the jiggle girls of prime-time television.
I want to go to San Francisco and do America in a cool, rather than tacky, way.
But not in a tacky wonderland way.
For example, one printed with a drawing of a sailboat and a canary was subtly gilded, but not in a tacky Ed Hardy way.
I found it quite endearing, in its own tacky way.
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