Sentence examples for tacky that from inspiring English sources

It looked tacky; that the building had clearly once been a competing motel was not a good sign.

QUESTION FROM SUE ELLEN : I'm actually interested in the culture of the whole thing QUESTION FROM KATHLEEN : Tacky that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown weren't invited.

Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin, who was so tacky that she didn't mention Obama's name in her congratulations, tried to draw credit to the Bush administration.

Having long railed against vanity plates, I got them myself (AKA KIT -- you figure it out) and encased one of them in a bejeweled license frame so tacky that the manager of the auto-parts store didn't want to sell it to me.

A few days before the annual Bloomsday celebration in 2004, he had the temerity to suggest that the Dublin Joyce industry is rather tacky, that Ulysses "could have done with a good editor" and that it's annoying for Irish writers like him to be forever compared to Joyce: "If you're a writer in Dublin and you write a snatch of dialogue, everyone thinks you lifted it from Joyce.

It takes genius to do garish and tacky that well.

Comment as you will, but I'd pick all of these rebel parents over a thousand parents who follow the rules and who are grooming their kids for the "Little boxes made of ticky-tacky" that Pete Seeger once sang about.

Executed (ITV) commemorated this anniversary with a tacky documentary that sold its subject matter short.

Phi Phi Don has a tacky seafront that is home to many a massage stall, tour operator and western bar.

A week later, Clara took me to a débutante ball at a tacky mansion that looked rabid to me, frothy with white marble balconies.

To serious musicians, the format may have been tacky but that didn't stop them queuing up to appear on it.