Green’s Dictionary of Slang

vulgar and banal, unsophisticated, corny.

1969		Sat. Rev. (US) 10 May 19/1: Men who desecrate the landscape with hundreds of ticky-tacky houses and boastfully call themselves developers, but would never dream of living in their own developments .
1973		Listener 6 Sept. 305: They’ve got maybe two years before they join their own little nuclear families and live in ticky-tacky mortgaged houses.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 46: She lived in a ticky-tacky box [...] out in North Hollywood.
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 308: The union boys from Chicago would have to look elsewhere for a spot to erect their ticky-tacky shopping mall.