Word "TACKY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
tastelessly showy
Synonyms:
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
(of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch
Examples:
tacky varnish

Crossword Clues for TACKY

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Cheap, inferior food back in Blighty The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Aug 2025
Sticky and not PC (5)
Not quite dry: the paint is still -
Slightly sticky or in bad taste (5)
Vulgar Scottish banker keeping outsiders in check (5)
Poor taste or quality
Vulgar and tasteless (5) Mirror Classic 07 May 2025
Slightly sticky to the touch (5)
It's distasteful to act badly over empty kitty
In poor taste Mirror Tea Time 31 Jan 2025
Not in good taste Newsday 24 Dec 2024
Sticky when it's marked by cheap showiness (5)
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)
Cheap or unstylish
Shoddy and sticky to the touch (5)
Like undried paint
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)
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
Cheap and flashy like drawing pins (5)
Nail jewellery, ultimately, is vulgar (5) Puzzler Cryptic 04 May 2024
Vulgar course of action shown by Yankee (5)
Vulgar change of policy about youth leader (5)
Gaudy tintack you included (5)
In poor taste Mirror Tea Time 07 Apr 2024
Sticks to lacking class (5)
Cheap course on philosophy, ultimately
Cheap course on philosophy, ultimately (5)
Gaudy description of nails?
Gaudy, tasteless (5)
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
In poor taste Universal 26 Jul 2021
In poor taste Universal 26 Apr 2021
Sticky and coarse
Vulgar eccentric having head in textbook for week
Not tasteful Newsday 11 Jun 2020
Lacking good taste USA Today 01 Jun 2020
Lacking good taste
Hardly classy
In poor taste Eugene Sheffer 22 Feb 2020
Lacking style
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
Sticky; showing poor taste The Times Concise 17 Aug 2019
Thanks to Calvin Klein, young are tasteless
Naff, like a nail?
Tasteless LA Times Daily 02 Jun 2019
Tasteless The Washington Post 02 Jun 2019
Like paint when it's nearly dry
Like a nail, perhaps, not quite dried?
Tasteless
5   Heap, by no means small, at far end of scullery, is crude 
Drying but sticky The Times Concise 18 Nov 2018
Tasteless adhesive
Hardly classy (rhymes with "wacky")
In poor taste LA Times Daily 31 Jul 2018
In poor taste The Washington Post 31 Jul 2018
In questionable taste LA Times Daily 22 Mar 2018
In questionable taste The Washington Post 22 Mar 2018
In poor taste
In poor taste Thomas Joseph 04 Nov 2017
It's common in most of the rubbish from Cork and Kerry Irish Times Crosaire 31 Jul 2017
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
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
Showy in a cheap way
Like kitsch
In poor taste
Tastelessly showy Family Time 10 Oct 2016
In bad taste The Washington Post 08 Oct 2016
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
Far from chic
Tastelessly showy
Like paint when it's nearly dry LA Times Daily 25 Oct 2015
Tastelessly showy Irish Times Simplex 22 Aug 2015
Sticky The Telegraph Quick 12 Jul 2015
In bad taste Premier Sunday 07 Jun 2015
Tom rejects Kerry - it's a sticky issue! Irish Times Crosaire 12 Mar 2015
Hardly high-class USA Today 07 Mar 2015
Lacking taste New York Times 16 Feb 2015
Like paint when it's nearly dry
Hardly high-class
Lacking taste
In bad taste
Shabby, like equestrian gear?
Lacking in taste, like gum
Sticker showy in the extreme and cheap-looking
Yacht's beginning to change direction before getting slightly sticky
Gauche
Lacking good taste
In questionable taste
Tasteless
Vulgar and somewhat adhesive …
In poor taste
Cheap-looking
In poor shape
Dowdy
Hardly high-class
Tasteless
In poor taste
Hardly classy
Hardly chic
Hardly chic
Cheap-looking
Slightly adhesive
Lacking good taste
Cheap
In poor taste
Tasteless
In poor taste
Tasteless
Crude
Crude
Crude
Like plastic slipcovers
In poor taste
Hardly classy
Gauche
Tasteless
Hardly elegant
Hardly high-class
Vulgar
Crass
Like kitsch
Cheap adhesive
Lacking style
Like beer mug helmets
Hardly elegant
Exuding kitsch
Down at the heel
Just not done
Dowdy
Not neat or stylish
Not quite dry, as paint
Far from fashionable
Dowdy: Colloq.
Sticky.
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