tawdriness
- a word derived from tawdry.
Example Sentences
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In reality, it’s a bit of a down-the-middle thriller that flirts with tawdriness as it presents the inner workings of the highly secretive Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022
Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020
But its enthusiastic tawdriness is still captivating, as attested by the reboot’s decent ratings.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 14, 2019
To lack of education he attributed the tawdriness and vulgarity of popular taste.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
