tackily

In poor taste

In a tacky manner—with cheap taste, gaudy excess, or inappropriate showiness.

The room was tackily decorated with plastic flowers and velvet paintings.

Less commonly, tackily describes physical stickiness: The paint dried tackily in the humid air.

flashy

ostentatiously

In a showy manner

loudly · flamboyantly · glitzily · brassily · splashily · dazzlingly · glaringly · extravagantly · theatrically · swankily

tasteless

vulgarly

In an uncouth way

chintzily · crassly · uncouthly · inelegantly · unsophisticatedly · indelicately · clumsily · awkwardly · inappropriately · grossly

cheap

shoddily

In an inferior manner

tawdrily · tattily · grubbily · seedily · scruffily · shabbily · dingily · pokily · meagerly · poorly

excessive

ornately

With lavish decoration

busily · jarringly · discordantly · inharmoniously · unsubtle · intrusively · pretentiously · rococo · baroque · overblown

Opposites
taste and aesthetic quality

tackilytastefully

With aesthetic discernment

elegantly · classily · chicly · stylishly · sophisticatedly

expense and quality

tackilyexpensively

At great cost

luxuriously · opulently · lavishly · richly · sumptuously

Phrases
Family

tacking, tackiness, tackiest, tackier

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G