TAWDRY


Meaning of TAWDRY in English

(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

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