Sentence example with the word 'tawdry'

tawdry

blatant, brummagem, chintzy, crude, flaring, garish, gorgeous, meretricious, screaming, shameless, spectacular, tinny, vulgar

Definition adj. tastelessly showy

Last update: August 23, 2018


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She wears tawdry dresses.   [noun]

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What grandiloquent phrases for such a tawdry and criminal aim !   [adjective]

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Postmodernists who criticize Adorno for denouncing the tawdry spectacle of consumer culture have no conception of his vision of what things could be.   [adjective]

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I tried to make out who were as anxious to get out of that tawdry den as I was.   [Please select]

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He was immediately fitted with a tawdry suit of clothes belonging to Banter, and by him recommended to Chatter as a very pretty fellow, just returned from his travels.   [Please select]

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He therefore adapts himself to his circumstances, and, using the mould rather than the chisel, produces specimens which show tawdry handsomeness and are attractively cheap. It must be admitted, however, that even though foreign appreciative faculty were sufficiently educated, the Japanese artist in metals would still labor under the great difficulty of devising shapes to take the place of those which Europe and America have learned to consider classical.   [Please select]

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It is precious because honest and devoid of the tawdry gilt of flattery.   [Please select]

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There were tawdry masquerade costumes, too, and theatrical make-up.   [Please select]

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The cruel sunlight streamed down on the tawdry court, on the worn-out old man.   [Please select]

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All the garish display, the paint and tawdry finery, of the old gambling days, had gone.   [Please select]

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