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Examples of tawdry
tawdry
Rather, it's what the theologians are doing that I find tawdry and disreputable.
From the scienceblogs.com
Even the croupiers look a bit tawdry, their bow ties drooping in the stale air.
From the businessweek.com
It's tawdry certainly, but freedom has never been a matter of pristine manners.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some critics have scorned them as tawdry, excessive and overpowering for singers.
From the nytimes.com
Finally, Parks dresses up her tawdry melodrama with affected symbolic nihilism.
From the sacbee.com
It was as tawdry as expected, with every poster lauding Gawd with bible verses.
From the scienceblogs.com
He was fined and received a suspended sentence for his role in the tawdry affair.
From the sacbee.com
The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.
From the economist.com
But it is hard to choose whose behaviour in this tawdry tale is more distasteful.
From the smh.com.au
- Brassy: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- Cheapjack: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
- (tawdrily) garishly: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers"
- Cheap and gaudy; showy
- Garish, gawdy, with lace or staring and discordant colours.
- Showy but cheap and of poor quality
