Sentence examples for expensive tacky from inspiring English sources

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He comes across as a shrewd, well-meaning parvenu who savors the expensive, tacky trappings of his success but who has no mythic stature whatsoever.

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Most of them are tacky, expensive and no matter WHAT the bride tells you, there is no way you are going to wear them again.

"There was a cooking day once in Girl Scouts, and I think that's the only time the kitchen ever got used". For her whip-smart blog, McMansion Hell, she scours online real estate listings for examples of ostentatiously large, extravagantly tacky, and obnoxiously expensive suburban homes, and then posts the listing's exterior and interior photos to her site with commentary.

"Tacky things, bad taste, expensive decorations," he said.

The suits they wore seemed expensive, but closer inspection showed them to be tacky and poorly made.

Some of the most tacky, inappropriate and unattractive fashions are expensive.

Coconut, hazelnut, cashew, hemp milks: distant sirens, usually encountered in punitively expensive hand-pressed blends at places that consider macchiatos tacky and instead offer cortados and Gibraltars.

Buying clothes that actually fit you and compliment your body shape and colouring goes a long way and looks MUCH better than a bunch of expensive, brand name items tossed together to make a tacky outfit.

Don't be tacky, but don't wear anything too expensive either - the point is to wear nice jewelry, but if it got lost in the sea it wouldn't be a big deal.

This might seem tacky, but real quality flowers can be incredibly expensive.

No longer tacky and stuffy, it now has four floors of dining rooms, the least expensive and least serviced being the cafeterialike ground floor, while the most formal fourth floor shines with etched glass, flowers and polished wood.

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