tawdry

IPA: tˈɔdri

Examples of "tawdry" in Sentences

This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious.
It's just cheap and tawdry, which is what FOX is about anyways. upright left Says:
Here is a senator who pled guilty to a misdemeanor in what can best be described as tawdry circumstances.
This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The word tawdry has appeared in 61 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 12 in "On the Bow'ry," by Dan
Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat.
He blamed ABC News for broadcasting an interview that he called "tawdry and inappropriate," but he did not directly respond to the account from his former wife, to whom he was married for 18 years.
Settling herself down to a review of her past as a preliminary to the consideration of her future, and hunting in it to begin with for any justification of that distressing word tawdry, the next thing she knew was that she wasn't thinking about this at all, but had somehow switched on to Mr. Wilkins.