adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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tawdry jewelry
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a tawdry scandal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
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Everywhere you looked in this hour-long special, there was some tawdry scene being enacted.
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His apartment was a tasteful disappointment, clashing with his tawdry appearance.
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It seems a tawdry nightmare, looking back.
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry , or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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The place was all tawdry bars, dance-halls and flop-houses that were also houses of assignation.
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Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.