tawdry
adjective
(of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
tawdrily
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a word derived from
tawdry.
Example Sentences
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The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
In turn, some of the late Thatcher period's entrepreneurial energy would define the moment that was rather tawdrily labelled Cool Britannia.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013
In raw-boned wiriness and in feature, Saul Fulton was typically a mountaineer, but in dress and affectation of manner he was a nondescript aping the tawdrily and cheaply urban.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
