tawdry
IPA: tˈɔdri
noun
- (obsolete) Tawdry lace.
- (obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
adjective
- (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
- (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.
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Examples of "tawdry" in Sentences
- It is cheap and tawdry.
- His new car is tawdry and shiny.
- It is tawdry and serves no real purpose.
- That will put an end to this tawdry debate.
- They start a tawdry affair and fall in love.
- Raul Julia is wasted, Sonia Braga is tawdry.
- It sounds like somebody's tawdry adultery scandal.
- Raul Julia is wasted but Sonia Braga is still tawdry.
- We didn't want to do anything cheap, tawdry or meretricious.
- The idea was to skew toward the sentimental, not the tawdry.
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