Sentence examples for tacky at from inspiring English sources

She said the chapel filmed the ceremony, which she described as "not tacky at all", and declared: "As it stands we have not done a magazine deal".

They believe, for example, that it is tacky, at best, to raise money by offering American flags from the pulpit, as Falwell did last year.

The scene he depicted was of the high-kicking can-can dance thought of as tacky at the time that was emerging in the lower and middle classes.

Don't wear too much makeup or jewelry; it'll look tacky at school.

Riyalma showed she handled tacky ground at Newmarket and I'm very happy with her".

"They would still eat their tacky herring at home, but once they were out they would pretend to enjoy only more refined food," said Izabela Skiba, 23, as she dug into her own herring in oil and washed it down with a shot of vodka at the Miedzy Wodka a Zakaska bistro, another of the new bars.

The Royal Horticultural Society has temporarily lifted a ban on garden gnomes - normally deemed too "tacky" - at the Chelsea Flower Show.

USA Todays Ken Barnes, however, found the track "campy" and "a tacky attempt at sexiness", adding that the combination of yodeling and the interpolation was "awkward".

Despite all the tacky attempts at censorship, it wasn't the art world's most shameful decade (it wasn't great enough for that).

So I've always dismissed cruising – with its gaudy decor and ra-ra entertainment – as tacky and unimaginative at best, socially shameful and environmentally reprehensible at worst.

Emma made a point of checking out the ticky-tacky merchandise at the countless beach shops in all the towns.