1 (informal) cheap, badly made and/or lacking in taste:
tacky souvenirs * The movie had a really tacky ending.
2 (of paint, glue, etc.) not dry and therefore slightly sticky
tackiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tacky is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tacky a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tacky is tagged as adjective.
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