tackiness
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈtækɪnəs/
- Informal
:
vulgaridad
- While a souvenir or slide show often fails to signify anything but a very personal response, a closer examination of the souvenir's perennial tackiness points to another key issue.
It's just that that full blown Bachelorette party like fake southern tackiness.
- It's just that that full blown Bachelorette party like fake southern tackiness.
Examples
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Where did I read this—here?—that these ads have no other purpose but to get free airing on news shows by talking heads who can demonstrate their outrage at the tackiness while still getting the GOP message out there at no cost to McCain's trust fund?
Blog text (17) -
In the September issue of Vanity Fair, A. A. Gill argues that the boorishness and tackiness of the straight wedding is in itself an argument for gay marriage.
Blog text (8) -
Forty years later, the sculptures have become unlikely fixtures of a certain kind of high-end sensibility, a shorthand for tongue-in-cheek tackiness.
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Despite the tackiness of some such ads, hindsight leads one to question Rehnquist's conclusion that commercial advertising about prescription drugs and their prices lacks the ideological content necessary to be categorized as protected speech under the First Amendment.
Academic text (2007) -
Cast in flaming pink polyethylene, the flamingo became an emblem of what Nancy delicately calls the "T-word"—tackiness.
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The tackiness of the decorations at the party made it feel cheap and uninviting.
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She criticized the film for its tackiness, pointing out the vulgar humor and poor dialogue.
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Many people avoid that restaurant because of its tackiness; they believe it lacks style and sophistication.
Synonyms
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7.5
Flashy style that looks nice but is not deep
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7.4
A lack of good taste and politeness in speech or behavior
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9.9
Small decorative things that are fancy and not useful
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5.6
A rude or crude way of acting, speaking and dressing
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6.8
Poor style that makes people feel uncomfortable
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8.7
A cheap, flashy look that seems low quality
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3.5
A quality that makes something look showy and not stylish
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5.6
A bright, showy style that attracts attention and looks cheap
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7.2
Too much bright decoration on clothes or signs that looks bad
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4.9
A feeling that something is silly because it is cheap or too sentimental
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6.9
A poor, unpleasant quality in things like rooms or food
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6.0
Being sentimental and old-fashioned in a way that feels silly or embarrassing
Something that looks bright and attractive but has no real value
A cheap, flashy way of copying better things
Rude behavior or dress that shows no good taste
A quality of being showy and loud in style that hides simple beauty
A lot of extra decoration that looks showy
Lack of polite behavior or good taste
Antonyms
How Tasteless
Surface Forms
Morphology
tackiness = tacky (semi-transparent) = tack + y + ness
Formally 'tacky' + '-ness', but the meaning 'cheap or vulgar' is a metaphorical extension from 'sticky' and is less predictable for learners who only know the literal sense.
Etymology
Tackiness has a second meaning from the same root tacky, which moved from 'sticky' to describe things that look showy or low quality. So, tackiness for style is the quality of being 'cheap' or 'vulgar'.