Sentence examples for tacky by from inspiring English sources

While garden gnomes were long considered merely tacky by most arbiters of taste, in the last few years they have begun to enjoy a cult following, perhaps not completely ironic.

As a conceit for a drama, an architectural derby to design the first monument on the moon carries a pleasant-to-ponder and satiric set of metaphorical implications: the attempt to give shape and substance to dreams, perhaps, or the desire to stake a claim in the universe of ideas -- grand human urges rendered tacky by the element of competition.

That's seen as tacky by 50% of your probable connections.

An Oxford solicitors firm's promotion offering half-price divorces to couples going through a break-up has been labelled "tacky" by a religious leader.

Make sure that you aren't making the dress look tacky by doing so and always have someone who knows how to sew alter the dress.

But its monsters grow tackier by the minute first giant metallic ladybirds, then gun-toting rhinos, while Gary Oldman's space buccaneer cradles a familiar that is part Dumbo, part Babar the elephant.Common to all these films is a lack of faith in the genre itself.

They, it appears, more than the Ghanaians, enthusiastically participate in a jamboree near Accra, but the Panafest doesn't sound like my idea of fun, with everything running late (very late), a series of tacky performances by dance groups and choirs, some shameless cadging by officials and, yes, a ubiquitous T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Kunta Kinte, the hero of "Roots".

His materials are truly tacky, but by the standards of his day, so were Duchamp's.

Wearing the expected series of resplendently tacky gowns (by Stephen Adnitt), Dame Edna is allowed a few moments to patronize and embarrass audience members as only she can.

Dressed in tacky splendor by Michelle R. Phillips and staking their claims in and about Christopher Barreca's versatile set, these acrobats, sideshow freaks, aerialists and general roustabouts promise their audience "wonders of wonders dazzle and daring".

Fascinators – the extravagant headpieces that were the height of sartorial sophistication at this year's royal wedding – have been reduced to "limp feathers and a tacky flower" by high street retailers, according to Philip Treacy, celebrity milliner behind Princess Beatrice's much-derided royal wedding hat.