Synonyms for ticky-tacky
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Poor man's — made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality
poor man's, lousy, shoddy, cruddy slang
2. Streets behind — inferior, minor, trivial
Definitions
- adj. 1
Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
- adj. 2
Inferior, minor, trivial.
Related words
- Word family
- ticky-tack
- Other spellings
- ticky tacky
Example sentences
- lousy Back in the 1990s, Algeria had lousy infrastructure.
- shoddy I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
- trifling Their trouble stems from a trifling matter.
By length
- 5 letters
- lousy2
- 6 letters
- shoddy2, cruddy2
- 8 letters
- trifling2
- 9 letters
- ignorable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lousy2 = 2 syllables).