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adj. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish"

flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

battered, bedraggled, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

sluttish, blowsy, blowzy, frowsy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly

adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women

adhesive

adj. tending to adhere

pasty, gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous

adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

inelegant

adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

loud

adj. characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

crass

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

gauche, graceless, unpolished

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

lower-class, low-class

adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

artless, unsophisticated, unworldly

adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

unsophisticated, uncomplicated

adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

bedewed, dewy

adj. wet with dew

besprent, sprinkled

adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"

muddy, mucky, boggy, marshy, miry, quaggy, sloughy, swampy

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

clammy, dank, humid

adj. unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"

damp, dampish, moist

adj. slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

dripping

adj. having liquid falling in drops; "in the dripping fog"; "the scene where he is singing in the rain in dripping clothes"; "there was little shelter under the dripping trees"

misty, drizzling, drizzly, misting

adj. (wet)

hydrated, hydrous

adj. containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)

sticky, sultry, humid, muggy, steamy

adj. hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"

perspiring, sweaty

adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"

reeking

adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"

rainy, showery

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

soggy, waterlogged

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

sticky

adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

watery

adj. filled with water; "watery soil"

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

indelicate

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

in good taste, tasteful

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

plain, simple, modest, unostentatious

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

simple

adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

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