tack⋅y
2 /ˈtæki/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [tak-ee] Show IPA
–adjective, tack⋅i⋅er, tack⋅i⋅est.
1. not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
2. shabby in appearance; shoddy: a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
3. crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
4. gaudy; flashy; showy.
Somehow this word came up today and I posted it on Facebook. Here in the South, you can be lots of things but tacky isn't one of them. (We have our share of tacky people and behaviors, of course, but the ultimate put-down is to be tacky. Or so it seems to me.)
Share your vision of tacky. Whether real or imagined.
Mine? Some guy who walks around in a three-piece suit but eats his dinner with his hands. Or showing up REALLY late for a funeral. Or name-dropping, loudly.
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