| Slightly sticky - in poor taste (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Feb 2026 |
| Sticky; gaudy |
The Telegraph Mini |
20 Sep 2025 |
| Cheap, inferior food back in Blighty |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Aug 2025 |
| Sticky and not PC (5) |
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| Not quite dry: the paint is still - |
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| Slightly sticky or in bad taste (5) |
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| Vulgar Scottish banker keeping outsiders in check (5) |
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| Poor taste or quality |
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| Vulgar and tasteless (5) |
Mirror Classic |
07 May 2025 |
| Slightly sticky to the touch (5) |
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| It's distasteful to act badly over empty kitty |
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| In poor taste |
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| Not in good taste |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2024 |
| Sticky when it's marked by cheap showiness (5) |
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| Vulgar |
The Times Sunday Concise |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Cheap and tasteless |
USA Today |
07 Dec 2024 |
| Rather like a nail perhaps, lacking in taste (5) |
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| Cheap or unstylish |
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| Shoddy and sticky to the touch (5) |
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| Like undried paint |
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| Not in good taste |
Newsday |
23 Jul 2024 |
| Sticky carpet fastener with last of spray (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
01 Jul 2024 |
| Cheaply made or in poor taste (5) |
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| Like trimming your nails in public |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Jun 2024 |
| Weird Al Yankovic song whose video features Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, and Jack Black |
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| Cheap and flashy like drawing pins (5) |
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| Nail jewellery, ultimately, is vulgar (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 May 2024 |
| Vulgar course of action shown by Yankee (5) |
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| Vulgar change of policy about youth leader (5) |
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| Gaudy tintack you included (5) |
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| In poor taste |
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| Sticks to lacking class (5) |
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| Cheap course on philosophy, ultimately |
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| Cheap course on philosophy, ultimately (5) |
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| Gaudy description of nails? |
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| Gaudy, tasteless (5) |
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| A little sticky, and in bad taste |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Jul 2023 |
| Not tasteful |
Newsday |
31 May 2023 |
| Like leaving the price tag on a gift |
New York Times |
12 May 2023 |
| Having no taste |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2023 |
| Gluey |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Exhibiting poor taste |
New York Times |
21 Jun 2022 |
| Tawdry |
The Guardian Quick |
21 May 2022 |
| Cheap adhesive |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Feb 2022 |
| Still sticky |
New York Times |
31 Dec 2021 |
| In poor taste |
LA Times Daily |
13 Nov 2021 |
| Slightly sticky |
The Times Concise |
05 Nov 2021 |
| Tastelessly showy |
USA Today |
30 Oct 2021 |
| Lacking style and taste |
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| In poor taste |
Universal |
26 Jul 2021 |
| In poor taste |
Universal |
26 Apr 2021 |
| Sticky and coarse |
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| Vulgar eccentric having head in textbook for week |
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| Not tasteful |
Newsday |
11 Jun 2020 |
| Lacking good taste |
USA Today |
01 Jun 2020 |
| Lacking good taste |
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| Hardly classy |
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| In poor taste |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Feb 2020 |
| Lacking style |
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| Showing poor taste; sticky |
The Times Concise |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Tastelessly showy |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Nov 2019 |
| Harebrained woman goes for model that is cheap |
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| Sticky; showing poor taste |
The Times Concise |
17 Aug 2019 |
| Thanks to Calvin Klein, young are tasteless |
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| Naff, like a nail? |
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| Tasteless |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jun 2019 |
| Tasteless |
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| Like paint when it's nearly dry |
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| Like a nail, perhaps, not quite dried? |
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| Tasteless |
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| 5 Heap, by no means small, at far end of scullery, is crude |
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| Drying but sticky |
The Times Concise |
18 Nov 2018 |
| Tasteless adhesive |
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| Hardly classy (rhymes with "wacky") |
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| In poor taste |
LA Times Daily |
31 Jul 2018 |
| In poor taste |
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| In questionable taste |
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| In questionable taste |
LA Times Daily |
22 Mar 2018 |
| In poor taste |
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| In poor taste |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Nov 2017 |
| It's common in most of the rubbish from Cork and Kerry |
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| Food by end of day almost dry, perhaps, and tasteless |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Jun 2017 |
| Food by end of day almost dry, perhaps, and tasteless |
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| Showing poor taste |
Wall Street Journal |
09 May 2017 |
| In poor taste |
USA Today |
19 Apr 2017 |
| Showy in a cheap way |
New York Times |
22 Jan 2017 |
| Like kitsch |
New York Times |
15 Jan 2017 |
| Like kitsch |
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| Showy in a cheap way |
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| In poor taste |
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| Tastelessly showy |
Family Time |
10 Oct 2016 |
| In bad taste |
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| Far from chic |
Universal |
11 Sep 2016 |
| Kitschy |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Jul 2016 |
| Tastelessly showy |
Universal |
17 Jun 2016 |
| Army club at Kentucky suburbs is vulgar |
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| Far from chic |
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| Tastelessly showy |
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| Like paint when it's nearly dry |
LA Times Daily |
25 Oct 2015 |
| Tastelessly showy |
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| Sticky |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jul 2015 |
| In bad taste |
Premier Sunday |
07 Jun 2015 |
| Tom rejects Kerry - it's a sticky issue! |
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| Hardly high-class |
USA Today |
07 Mar 2015 |
| Lacking taste |
New York Times |
16 Feb 2015 |
| Lacking taste |
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| Hardly high-class |
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| In bad taste |
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| Like paint when it's nearly dry |
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| Shabby, like equestrian gear? |
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| Lacking in taste, like gum |
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| Sticker showy in the extreme and cheap-looking |
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| Yacht's beginning to change direction before getting slightly sticky |
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| Gauche |
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| Tasteless |
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| In questionable taste |
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| Lacking good taste |
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| Vulgar and somewhat adhesive … |
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| In poor taste |
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| Cheap-looking |
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| Dowdy |
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| In poor shape |
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| In poor taste |
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| Tasteless |
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| Hardly high-class |
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| Hardly chic |
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| Hardly chic |
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| Hardly classy |
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| Cheap-looking |
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| Slightly adhesive |
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| Cheap |
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| Lacking good taste |
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| In poor taste |
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| In poor taste |
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| Crude |
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| Tasteless |
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| Crude |
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| Tasteless |
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| Crude |
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| In poor taste |
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| Like plastic slipcovers |
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| Hardly classy |
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| Hardly elegant |
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| Tasteless |
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| Gauche |
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| Hardly high-class |
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| Vulgar |
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| Crass |
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| Cheap adhesive |
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| Like kitsch |
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| Lacking style |
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| Like beer mug helmets |
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| Hardly elegant |
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| Exuding kitsch |
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| Down at the heel |
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| Dowdy |
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| Not neat or stylish |
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| Just not done |
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| Not quite dry, as paint |
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| Far from fashionable |
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| Dowdy: Colloq. |
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| Sticky. |
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