What is "tackier"

Usage examples of "tackier".

Only the Movie Palace remained as a token reminder of more innocent days in a district that was becoming tackier and more dangerous every year.

With the wires securely in place, he reached in the locker and pulled out a gaudy pink-and-green shirt, the sort of thing the tackier pimps on Seventh Avenue wore.

Bragg Boulevard, a garish ten-mile avenue of Putt-Putts, pawnshops, strip clubs, and used car dealerships, all of them even tackier than such establishments normally are.

It was getting tackier by the minute, but I felt as though we were getting someplace.

I got back, this place looked different somehow, shriveled up, tackier, fucking pathetic really.

Of the hundreds if not thousands of Elvis items that had been marketed over the years, scores were tackier than these ceramic collectibles, and he had not disapproved of licensing them.

Urban expansion also extended to schools for the children of senior Dynasty members, stores promoting the most expensive designer items to be found in the Commonwealth, and a few high-class low-morals leisure clubs whose existence was a constant source of semi-envious rumor on the tackier unisphere gossip shows.

It is all that bustling steaming growth that turns the state tackier each year.

She tried to aim the gun at her tackier, but the pistol was snatched from her hand.

Keefer made a terrifying animal scream and charged at his father like a football tackier, hitting him in the right side with his shoulder and driving him back and onto his rear end.

Looking up, he saw the air above the mountains streaked in peach and apricot, a phenomenal, overblown sunset such as Rudy had previously associated with the tackier variety of cowboy painters or photographs in inspirational magazines.