(tawdrier, tawdriest)
1.
If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as ~, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
...~ jewellery.
= tacky
ADJ
2.
If you describe something such as a story or an event as ~, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral.
...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the ~ reality.
ADJ: usu ADJ n