(1) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
(2) City will not be able to get away with defending this shabbily against José Mourinho’s team.
(3) The second was the lobbying campaign in which all bidders took advantage of grey areas in the shabbily defined rules surrounding the dual race for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to offer to build training academies, arrange or host lucrative friendlies and do everything in their power and budget (limitless, in Qatar's case) to win votes.
(4) Almost everyone agrees that the Chagossians were shabbily treated, to say the least, but there does not seem to be anyone in government prepared to right the wrong.
(5) Like all nations, we have sometimes behaved shabbily.
(6) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more As the Republican frontrunner arrived to resounding applause, he told attendees to “sit down, you’ll be here for a while.” Trump then gave uncharacteristally short monologue where he complained about the debate, in his words, “it was three hours, felt like more than that” as well as his treatment by cable news networks, “Fox treated me shabbily, CNN a little bit better.” But not everything was bad for Trump, he bragged that in every online poll (none of which were scientific) he had won.
(7) It has to be said, his parents' approach doesn't seem to have worked out too shabbily for him.
(8) Labour MP David Winnick accused Sedwill and the home secretary, Amber Rudd , of “shabbily misleading” the committee last month when giving evidence about Goddard’s departure.
(9) Savina, however, said the journalists had been treated shabbily.
(10) A period of doleful introspection last week over how the world's wealthiest nation could treat its poor so shabbily will now be followed by a flag-waving orgy hailing patriotic resilience in the face of a vicious attack.
(11) Some say treated shabbily by ministers; he angered them by saying that teacher shortages were the worst in his career.
Tacky
Definition:
(a.) Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
Example Sentences:
(1) But to be described as "tacky" is another thing entirely.
(2) The samples were periodically withdrawn for examination of yellowing and tackiness.
(3) He says they talk about "the love, life and losses of [Real Housewives Of Atlanta star] NeNe Leakes," and that they're "designing the merchandise for the next season of [equally tacky reality show] Bad Girls Club: Evian bottles replaced with leopard print covers to conceal the brand on TV.
(4) It ultimately led to his re-capture on Friday in a tacky hotel in Los Mochis, a town of tomato growers on the Pacific Coast.
(5) The five-year-old isn’t troubled that it might make her look tacky.
(6) Practical application is hampered by inherent characteristics of elastomers, i.e., high tackiness and highly hydrophobic surface properties.
(7) Most of the outfits he describes as "tacky" and features in his video look to me like those ones praised by fashion magazines.
(8) He's right, these aren't just modern irritants, they're downright tacky.
(9) 22 min "All this possession and ticky-tacky passing," says Sean Boiling.
(10) We might have thought that that was going to be the nadir of this teeth-grindingly tacky week, but then West Australian talk radio host and alleged adult Howard Sattler demonstrated that our concepts of “bottom of the barrel” were wildly optimistic.
(11) Abbott, the Liberal leader, said the menu was "tacky and scatological" but confirmed that Brough's candidacy was safe.
(12) Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) Donald Trump on Iraq's oil reserve: "I say we should take it and pay ourselves back" #CPAC March 15, 2013 12.52pm GMT "That's the problem with the country," Trump says after detailing how the White House wouldn't let him build one of his tacky black-and-gold-paneled ballrooms on their back lawn.
(13) Lidl will forever be associated for me with that illicit drink in its tacky rouge bottle.
(14) But what I especially enjoy about Weird Al's song is the way he deems tacky certain aspects of modern life that are now so common they can pass almost unseen: people Instagramming every meal (an "unfollow" offence if ever there was one); people who keep old liquor bottles in a pointless attempt to create a kind of speakeasy vibe; live-tweeting private occasions, and so on.
(15) They’ve taken something fine and beautiful and replaced it with something tacky and characterless and guess what?
(16) A woman who wears Versace fancies herself quite the molto molto sexy mama, with a dash of 80s tackiness thrown in.
(17) I had been trapped in the politically correct negative view of the relay, the view that the cult of the torch was an invented tradition foisted on the Olympics by the Nazis in 1936 and that the 2012 relay was a tacky stunt for drumming up phoney enthusiasm for the London Games from an otherwise indifferent public.
(18) As Shona says, certain styles and habits are described as "tacky" by Yankovic in this song, and I don't think many will disagree: Ed Hardy shirts, glitter Uggs, pink sequin Crocs.
(19) And you will not find Richard Branson pushing a trolley down the aisle for some tacky publicity stunt.
(20) Spinability, pourability, adhesiveness and tackiness are starting to be recognised as physical properties of RTS and its is likely that they may be relevant in the pathogenesis of airways obstruction.