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• Symmetrophiles calibrated to the milieu were skeletal sloops rigged with prettily cut jibs and tawdry spinnakers.2016, Frank Morris, The Pearl in the Diamond World, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry symmetrophile
• But the rescheduling of the directors' meeting for 7.30 a.m., and the trotting-out of such tawdry pabulums?1998, Will Self, “A Story for Europe”, in Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry pabulum
• Continuous revolution goes on and you're not with it with your alcoholic, tawdry, self-indulgent subculture.1978 December 23, anonymous author, “More Angry Young Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 2. From the entry put out to pasture
• The Republican convention was a gruesome and tawdry spectacle.2017, Michael Bierut, “I’m with Her”, in Now You See It and Other Essays on Design, Hudson, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN…. From the entry caps-locked
• Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.2012, Nathan Harden, Sex and God at Yale, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry marshmallowy
• But like Lord Lytton himself, the place is a strange mixture of what is really romantic and interesting with what is tawdry and gimcracky.1979, A. Sanders, Ian Q. Whishaw, The Victorian Historical Novel 1840–1880, page 66. From the entry gimcracky
• Afterward we proceeded down the tawdry Las vegas strip to the ultraexcessive Caesar's Palace Hotel, a sprawling place that seeks to the ancient Rome into twenty-eighth century.2013, Chase Untermeyer, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry ultraexcessive
• We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page. From the entry blightscape
• It is gay Paree of la belle époque, Gustav Eiffel and the Impressionists, not the hamburger-chained Champs-Elysées, Arc de McTriomphe and tawdry, all-too-tawdry Follies of today.2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry Paree

Meaning of tawdry

1. noun Tawdry lace.
2. noun Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
3. adjective Of clothing, appearance, etc., cheap and gaudy; showy.

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How do you use tawdry in a sentence?

Tawdry is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry, from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns.”

What is a short sentence with tawdry?

“The Republican convention was a gruesome and tawdry spectacle.”

What does tawdry mean?

Tawdry means tawdry lace.