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Messier42 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

About "tacky", "flimsy", "shoddy"

For ealisy breakable, cheap and badly made products,
Do you describle them as "tacky product","flimsy product","shoddy product"?
Are they any differneces?

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For ealisy breakable, cheap and badly made products, Do you describle them as "tacky product","flimsy product","shoddy product"? Are they any differneces? tacky in poor taste flimsy easy to break physically shoddy poor quality Clive

  • For ealisy breakable, cheap and badly made products, Do you describle them as "tacky product","flimsy product","shoddy product"?
  • Are they any differneces?
  • tacky in poor taste flimsy easy to break physically shoddy poor quality Clive
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For ealisy breakable, cheap and badly made products,
Do you describle them as "tacky product","flimsy product","shoddy product"?
Are they any differneces?

tacky in poor taste

flimsy easy to break physically


shoddy poor quality
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Tacky is typically used to describe the appearance of something. Flimsy is generally used to describe the material that somethng is made of. Shoddy is usually used to describe the workmanship that produced something. For example:

This hat with the plastic fruits on it is tacky (in bad taste, gaudy, overly flashy).

When I tried on that hat with the plastic fruits, it tore. The
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Thank you for the explanations!

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