tawdry
adjective
(of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
tawdriness
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a word derived from
tawdry.
Example Sentences
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Jerry Springer, whose chaotic talk show set a new standard for tawdriness on American TV, died yesterday.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
But for a crowd that was perhaps burning out on the after-hours warehouse scene, it was a well-timed mix of reliably tasteful music and lived-in tawdriness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
So perhaps this tawdriness is what we desire somewhere in the back of our mind?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2018
“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
There swept down upon him, if he thought of it at all now and then, only a feeling of the insufficiency, the narrowness, the unworthiness, the tawdriness, of all this which lay about him.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
