| The bottom surface has a tacky rubber material across it, which gives the pad very effective grip on all surfaces I tried it with. |
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| The header on these sheer curtains disguises tacky wax, which holds each plate in place. |
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| I will be out trolling the streets of Long Island, looking for the most tasteless, tacky decorations I can find. |
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| Less expected was the response of my cynical video-watching companions, who thought the film would be too tacky for their tastes. |
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| It was cheap and tacky and everything I didn't want to have shown as being part of my special day. |
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| There were three beds, one window with a little houseplant perched on the windowsill, and a set of slightly tacky drapes. |
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| Even their fences were elegant, painted a cream colour that should have looked tacky. |
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| And if the tacky drug metaphors sprinkled throughout this review annoyed you, avoid this record. |
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| Which makes it all the more inexcusable that so many restaurants spend a fortune on furnishings then stick tacky art on their walls. |
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| The chairs were tacky metal with pinky-brown covering on the seat and the back, but very comfortable. |
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| Personally, I don't have a particular problem with people who insist on doing up their houses in all forms of cheap nasty tacky decorations. |
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| If it all sounds slightly tacky, outrageous, and shocking, that's exactly the point. |
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| Even though I'm not going for tacky, the 99-cent stores are coming in handy, because the red ball ornaments there are mondo cheapo. |
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| The set is wonderful, from the cheesy 70s-inspired table lamps, to the tacky neon lights shining through the blinds. |
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| You can use great stuff but if you put it into a tacky glass, the drink's integrity immediately goes down. |
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| Much better was sweet, tacky chestnut flour tagliatelle with firm little shrimps and mushrooms. |
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| Though the sake at dinner was excellent and my two tacky mai tai's were fun, I prefer quality over quantity. |
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| Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America. |
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| Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces! |
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| What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around? |
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| There is a move from detailed images made with small brushes to ones broadly handled in increasingly thick, tacky paint. |
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| I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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| In tacky Tinseltown and London's effete Bloomsbury, Indian writers, film stars and directors are tops. |
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| They want to stress that it looks trashy if you wear the shortest skirts and look tacky. |
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| Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again. |
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| Premixed Singapore slings are served in a tacky glass with a cheapo straw and stirrer. |
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| She jumped into a blow-by-blow description of how tacky and cheap and unfashionable Mrs. Glum's latest get-up was. |
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| He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse. |
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| Actually, Jesus of the Week is making fun of the tacky images produced by Allen's own subculture, the insular world of US born-agains. |
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| Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters. |
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| It's a very vibrant medium pink, but not to the point that it has that tacky brightness about it. |
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| Who wants to go to a tacky West End celebrity hang-out, when celebrity is ten a penny and likely to comprise only noddies? |
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| And the traders are still there, their modern stock-in-trade tracksuits, tacky ornaments and whiskey sold for a 200 per cent mark-up. |
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| The skin is tacky, and quickly gives way to a thick, stringy paste of sugar. |
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| The day associated with tacky red hearts, cards, chocolates and flowers also has a spiritual root that is being explored by the Newbridge parish. |
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| If you're an international celebutante and you're going to do something tacky, be sure to do it in London. |
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| What kind of fashion accessories should men wear in order to look stylish, without looking over-decorated and tacky? |
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| The aftermath of the war also means that the city isn't overrun by tourists and there are few places selling tacky souvenirs at inflated prices. |
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| A thing so cheap, so tacky, so sordid that I scarcely dare sully these pages with an account of it. |
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| It's definitely not hokey or unsuitably romantic or otherwise tacky or out of date. |
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| The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time. |
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| I may like colored lights, but I do not like tacky displays of festiveness. |
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| Why would I want a photograph of a pillock in a tacky golden skirt holding up some fake dagger in an effort to pretend to kill me? |
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| It's almost like claret wine, except thicker like syrup, drying, coagulating, congealing into a tacky mess on the floor. |
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| It does not exude the tacky, plasticky feel of the compacts and is the sort of camera it would be a joy to roll some film through. |
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| I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticy, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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| But at the end of the day, I laid my head on the tacky floral pattern of the motel pillow, and I missed Callum's silly babbling and baby cuddles. |
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| We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July. |
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| A leisure suit with a cummerbund and a clean bowling shirt can create a tacky appearance. |
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| Other characters include a gang of lads and a gaggle of girls on a night out, a tacky DJ, a hotdog salesman and a cabbie. |
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| My family members give me gifts of tacky, gaudy trinkets that I have no use for. |
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| Others find her propensity for tacky glamour and ostentatious lack of decent clothing a little too much to bear. |
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| I knew you knew it would work out this way but gloating like that is, well, just tacky. |
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| The cheap and tacky photo set clearly makes me appear as a fat, beardy goth with bloodshot eyes and at least 3 chins. |
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| All excess oil must be removed or it will attract dust and get gummy or tacky. |
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| It is tacky and I don't like not being able to see what speed you are doing. |
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| Some experts advise the use of wax or some other tacky substance to hold the dubbing in place. |
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| They will get no quarrel from me about the utterly tacky impropriety of these guys acting as the messengers for such a call. |
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| But such attention to detail seemed to clash with a laminated menu, which made me think of tacky burger joints and sad little cafes. |
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| They ask, quite reasonably, how can you tell the difference between kitsch and tacky? |
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| It's a bit tacky, especially in comparison to the sophistication and refinement of the historic section. |
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| I felt that the game fell between two stools in that it was supposed to be scary yet it presented itself as an extremely tacky 1950s horror film. |
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| Although the adverse weather had relented for the kick-off, earlier rain had left the Valerie Street pitch on the tacky side. |
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| I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be. |
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| Where paint is applied, the woolly material takes on a tacky, repellent quality. |
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| Unlike other products enhanced with antiperspirant, it feels grippy, not tacky. |
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| It adorns tacky gold cigarette lighters and sets of imitation pearl earrings found in inflight duty free catalogues. |
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| But everything of mine seems so tacky but luckily, I found a ripper pair in the shop which are simply perfect. |
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| They solve this problem with fasteners, tacky, low-profile, rubber grips with mini Allen bolts on either end. |
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| Because it has a tacky surface, it attracts dust, which reduces its reflectivity somewhat. |
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| We ape the worst of tabloid titillation in a relentless downward drive of tacky exploitation. |
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| Lips and mucous membranes need to be moist and not tacky or sticky to the touch. |
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| I thought it was tacky with garbage music, but hey, there's no accounting for taste. |
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| It looked like it could have been held together with tacky glue and scotch tape. |
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| Rachel took up some newspaper and stuck it to the portions of the wallpaper that were tacky but not yet stuck to his person. |
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| The manufacturers of these rubber stocks have gone to a lot of trouble to produce a product that feels slightly tacky in the hand. |
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| Remove each stick, add a dot of tacky glue to the hole, and replace the stick. |
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| Practice sessions have seen several players complain of their feet getting stuck on a tacky surface. |
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| The salt crystals were apparently pushed with a paint brush into the tacky surface. |
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| One reason was that the surface states of the component materials were tacky. |
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| Let the adhesive thicken and become tacky according to the manufacturer's instruction before laying the files. |
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| Slowly add the water by hand, kneading in between each addition until a soft, tacky dough forms. |
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| It puts out a real sticky, tacky substance and is designed to restrict the movement of somebody. |
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| All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism. |
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| Makes for some tacky, cringeworthy, infomercial-like television. |
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| It's been whitewashed and dressed up and sugarcoated for so long that now it's just a tacky piece of junk on a souvenir stand, painted in red, white, and blue. |
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| If a fibre is mechanically extruded from a solution of silk protein just like pulling a thread from tacky glue, the fibre is still not as strong as real silk thread. |
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| As with the irregularly shaped planets whose wire armatures appeared to be bent by hand, these imperfect stars were made sweet by their tacky nonchalance. |
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| At the Met, jewels by jar may be tacky junk, but they tell us about ourselves. |
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| They were like bad actors from a tacky soap opera, and they irritated me. |
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| Come December every other house will be plastered in the tackiest of tacky flashing lights and we will laugh, regaling each other with sightings of aesthetic atrocities. |
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| It seemed to be a bit tacky and full of busloads of elderly people. |
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| Costume jewellery is another omnipresent tourist attraction, but be aware that the amber shops are often tacky and low quality, and amber isn't even local. |
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| This paint was tacky rather than wet, but it was clearly brand new. |
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| The tacky stuff takes some shifting and it's not cheap to do so. |
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| Photographers then added other sensitizing chemicals and allowed the plate to dry to a tacky consistency before dipping it in a bath of silver nitrate and other ingredients. |
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| Some of the sweaters he thought were true works of art, and some he thought were just tacky or funny. |
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| Call them trendsetters, or tacky '70s sham, but the truth is that they were really just trying to make a name for themselves in a rather unforgiving business. |
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| Lisa got some construction paper because she likes crafts and Dana got some tacky costume jewellery because she likes to dress up and look pretty. |
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| Is it tacky to wear a skirt with boots and no nylons in the Fall? |
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| Although I loved it instantly at the time, it soon felt like one piece of tacky, rainbow-flagged campery too many, its initial appeal wearing off like stale poppers. |
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| Gums with branched chains such as the gums arabic, tragacanth, karaya, guar, and locust bean, form tacky dispersions and in favourable conditions, strong gels. |
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| I loved the atmosphere, the sheer tacky, gaudy, exuberance of it all. |
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| Smoking is also quite tacky, it makes you look cheap and common. |
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| However beautiful it was, I knew I'd never be able to wear anything like it short of a wedding dress or a tacky costume for a play, and I didn't even plan on getting married. |
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| Like all inaugural pageants, this one, with its parade and balls and tacky souvenirs, is satisfying in each of us an atavistic love of kingliness. |
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| However tacky, this was hardly the flagrant public obscenity Cohen alleges. |
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| Needless to say, the unhappy story of Rock Hudson's private life is smirkingly absorbed into the movie's tacky fabric with excruciating wink-wink jokes. |
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| They've got the glossy good looks and fleeting A-list appeal to grab a famous Liam, but want to be more than lucky pop princesses turned tacky tabloid sirens. |
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| We skim Artexed ceilings quite a lot and the way we do it is to quickly knock off all peaks with scrapers, apply PVA to an area and then skim whilst the PVA is still tacky. |
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| We had an hour at the mall, which proved to be enough time for me to buy a few tacky gifts with which to disappoint loved ones back home, and also a stack of postcards. |
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| If you are a very classic dresser, I wouldn't recommend ties with motifs of animals or cartoons because they would probably come off as tacky and unattractive. |
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| Critics say it's tacky, noisy, and stuck in a time warp, those of us who love it agree with all that, that's what it's all about, being big, brash, gaudy and over the top. |
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| The American apparel adverts are deemed tacky and offensive because they dramatize, brazenly, the sex-drenched time we live in. |
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| He was middle-aged, with a prominent potbelly and tacky gold jewelry. |
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| Everything from tissues for our noses to our duvets in our tents has the tacky but tasteful print, my favourite being the synthetic leopard skin cover on the dunny. |
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| She pulled on the teeny, tacky red shorts over the top of diamante encrusted black leggings and rocked it with a cheapo looking lipstick T-Shirt. |
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| Geez Louise, people are bringing shower gifts and they are also getting bilked for the cost of their own refreshments? Dang, that's tacky. |
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| Copyright-free music can be a bit tacky and muzaky, but it is a low-budget option. |
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| During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness. |
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| Other higher-end properties, like the hotels Budir, Ranga and Glymur, offer Old World charm or slightly tacky rusticism. |
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| She wears a tacky T.A.R.D.I.S blue cardigan, buttoned to the max, over khaki slacks. |
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| But beyond the lovely grub and the natty gadgets, and the gorgeous gifts and the tacky toys, there is a ghost at the feast. |
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| The changes range from long-overdue repairs at scenic areas to less tacky merchandise in the gift shops. |
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| Hard water fluid residues will be tacky and less resoluble, affecting, for example, limit switches and machine tool functioning. |
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| But a BBC director general can hardly accuse a Labour peer of being tacky! |
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| While this coat is tacky, add a coat of Patine Green Topcoat and leave to develop for several hours. |
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| Saints' failure to score owed as much to the footsure performance of the home defence on a tacky surface as it did the visitor's impotent attack. |
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| Between these dubious bookends are plenty of forgettable songs amped up with tacky power chords and stridently sociological lyrics. |
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| Silicone resins give a silky feel to the skin when dried but they go through a tacky, draggy phase during dry down. |
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| One of the seediest styles from the tackiest decade is back, although in some postmodern way we now accept that it is, indeed, tacky. |
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| Even if the tie tack is a two-carat diamond, it's still tacky, says Leon Hall, spokesman for the New York-based Fashion Association. |
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| The above quote has been rated as gross, digusting, and tacky by my cow-orkers at work...are you a cow orker? |
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| Hollow out some artichokes, spray paint them silver and fasten to the candlesticks with tacky wax or floral putty. |
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| I'm not sure what was worse, the wacky Mini Mouse get-up or the tacky hot pants and T-shirt ghetto look. |
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| Seaside towns should sell ciabattas as well as chips, swop tacky gift shops for continental markets and open art galleries at night instead of just pubs and clubs. |
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| It would be shortsighted, however, to see the exhibition merely as a facile commentary on the visual manifestation of a tacky petit bourgeois aesthetic. |
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| The hotel was noted for its swankiness, but to me it looked tacky. |
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| Talking about payment in kind was very tacky when they'd been thundering towards the kind of dirtybadwrong porno-sex that she'd remember on her deathbed. |
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