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Tawdry

Tawdry meaning

Tawdry lace. | Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

Example sentences (15)

It's incredibly hurtful to have his mother exploited over and over again in this tawdry fashion by Netflix.

You also found it necessary to feature the sad, roasted, decapitated head of a pig being reduced to a disrespected, cheap, tawdry vehicle through which to guzzle a drink on the front page, too?

Because this is not a moment that ought to be tarnished with tawdry telling of not-so-flattering statistics.

It dates back to England in the mid-1500s, back when "crime pamphlets" containing bloody, tawdry stories of local crime began circulating among the educated aristocracy.

It has been described via comments on the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning portal as an 'eyesore', as a 'monstrosity', as 'vandalism', as a "tawdry fun fair installation".

There does seem to be a growing longing to bring an end to this tawdry administration.

The girls, grooving to the tawdry but popular Bhojpuri song Lagavelu Jab Lipistik for a few coins, belong to the small migrant Bihari community that comes to these parts for work.

As someone who had the privilege (curse?) of covering every tawdry hour of the Bill Clinton impeachment saga as a reporter in the 1990s, I would like to note a few things I learned back then, for context as this debate rages in the months ahead.

Despite the seriousness of the proceedings, the debate took turns for the tawdry and personal.

Don’t court sympathy with tawdry tricks like frowny faces.

Go back to lusting after straight boys’ bodies and leave the tawdry domestic melodramas to the Kardashians.

The tawdry list goes on and on.

And that is the last reference to this tawdry enterprise that will appear here.

One of the few redeeming aspects of the tawdry Omarosa-Trump drama is the revealing role played by Non-Disclosure Agreements in the Trump White House.

Its cast also featured Georgia Brown as Mrs Peachum, Maureen McGovern as Polly, Kim Criswell as Lucy, KT Sullivan as Suky Tawdry and Ethyl Eichelberger as the Street Singer.