tawdry

But using donors to enrich oneself is as an old and tawdry practice that is about getting rich, not famous.

The tawdry details of the Clinton scandals differed, but the basic narrative was one to which Americans were becoming inured.

In the centre of this table stood a tawdry Japanese vase, worth, perhaps, five or six shillings.

Even the children were not whimpering, the tawdry women were not hysterical, not a parrot raised his voice nor a dog whined.

The fire was the really great adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.

Singularly enough, this modest lady gave the origin to the word “tawdry,” so Thornbury declares.

Can't you see what a miserable sham the thing is—a cheap, tawdry imitation of the splendid classic type?