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单词 tacky
释义 tacky
I. \ˈtakē, -ki\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: tack (II) + -y
: barely sticky to the touch : adhesive: as
 a. : having a quality of adhering, clinging, or binding
  < tacky varnish >
  < tacky ink >
  < keeps rubber rollers and blankets tackyGraphic Arts Monthly >
 b. : characterized by tack
II. noun
(-es)
chiefly Britain : sneaker, tennis shoe — usually used in plural
III. noun
(-es)
Etymology: origin unknown
1. chiefly South : a small pony or inferior horse
2. chiefly South : an inferior or low-class person : poor white
 < the ditch-edge child of some sharecropping sandhill tacky — William Humphrey >
IV. adjective
(-er/-est)
1.
 a. : having the characteristics of or suitable for a low-class person : common
  < a poor-white and untidy person … he in short, was tacky — J.B.Cabell >
  < stigmatized as tacky — A.P.Hudson >
 b. : marked by shabbiness or signs of neglect : down-at-heel, seedy
  < the neighborhood was really getting very tacky — Walter Karig >
  < a tacky boardinghouse — New Yorker >
2.
 a. : marked by lack of style or good taste : ridiculously unbecoming : outmoded, dowdy
  < tacky knitted garments modeled on dumpy hausfrau types — Newsweek >
  < that pasty fat girl with those tacky pigtails — Carson McCullers >
  < looked God-awful tacky for a woman who was supposed to be a good designer — Hollis Alpert >
 b. : marked by cheap showiness : flashy, gaudy
  < a tacky costume >
  < sumptuously tacky countess who inhabits a cellar — Time >
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