On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Tawdry. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as brassy or tasteless and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Tawdry in a sentence
Tawdry meaning
- Tawdry lace.
- Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
Synonyms of Tawdry
Using Tawdry
- The main meaning on this page is: Tawdry lace. | Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
- Useful related words include: brassy, cheapjack, tasteless, trashy.
- In the example corpus, tawdry often appears in combinations such as: the tawdry, this tawdry, with tawdry.
Context around Tawdry
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tawdry
- In this selection, "tawdry" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cheap, bloody, suky, fashion, vehicle and telling stand out and add context to how "tawdry" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a tawdry fun fair and as suky tawdry and ethyl. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tawdry" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tawdry
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The tawdry list goes on and on. (7 words)
Don’t court sympathy with tawdry tricks like frowny faces. (10 words)
And that is the last reference to this tawdry enterprise that will appear here. (14 words)
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. (46 words)
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? (34 words)
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. (31 words)
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? (34 words)
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.
Common combinations with tawdry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: