(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(2) The samples were periodically withdrawn for examination of yellowing and tackiness.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.
Wacky
Definition:
(n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
(2) Shaw, a veteran of the Falklands and Iraq wars, also said the MoD had to be prepared to embrace unconventional and "wacky" ideas if the military wanted to catch up with, and then stay ahead of, rivals in the cybersphere.
(3) "They don't have any out-and-out wacky contestants – the Jedwards and the Wagners – and I think they are key to the joy of the show," he said.
(4) As she prepares to launch her final bid to become America’s first female president, the question posed by her best friend booms out loud: why funny and wacky to those who love her, yet to others a self-aggrandizing shrew?
(5) In the wacky parallel universe where this suit succeeds and sets a precedent, lots of countries could have a case for "unrealistic portrayal": Mongolia National pride offended by perhaps the worst casting decision of all time, when John Wayne played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror .
(6) Schmidt's visit to Burma comes after trips to Libya, Afghanistan and North Korea, which he said was a "truly wacky place".
(7) Like someone's first time at Ascot, unsure of how wacky to go with their hat.
(8) The Globes can be notoriously wacky – this time round, in a good way.
(9) Then somebody pointed out a "slightly wacky" advertisement for a deputy head in Essex.
(10) Kevin Rudd has backed a 20% company tax rate for the Northern Territory – 10 percentage points lower than the rest of the country – as part of a northern economic plan very similar to a Coalition strategy labelled "wacky" and "crazy" by Labor ministers earlier in the year.
(11) Sadly, these hopes may also belong in a wacky parallel universe.
(12) Ballmer, whose wacky "monkey dance" and enthusiasm had once shown him to be a loose, fun manager, was not the man of vision that his predecessor, Bill Gates, was.
(13) That's just… That's not walk-off interference call levels of wackiness but damn close.
(14) We’re already fighting against constitutional “personhood” status for zygotes and attempts to defund a woman’s health organization thanks to the 3% it spends performing abortions, so perhaps the anti-choice movement has reached peak wacky.
(15) United States of America Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.
(16) Allen does not, you'll be glad to hear, explain how to manoeuvre a Gillette razor effortlessly around that tricky bit near your jaw line, nor is she using her position to point out that all of your wacky ties need to be rolled into a ball and thrown in a lake.
(17) Oh, and speaking of wacky hi-jinks, lest we forget .
(18) There was clear anger among Tory high command at the latest intervention by the outspoken Mid Bedfordshire MP, with one senior source describing her comments as "completely wacky".
(19) Harry Redknapp's team showed their spirit and, in a wacky game of contrasting halves, they missed a penalty and nearly completed an outlandish comeback against a Fulham side that finished with 10 men after the harsh dismissal of Steve Sidwell.
(20) • How goes the government's wacky restriction on books being sent to prisoners?