Tawdrily

My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it. ❋ Rachel (2006)

Stax/Volt was a noble record company which issued many sides of enduring value at a significant time in interracial cultural history, but its story is less a parable than an account of managerial failure and tawdrily protracted cash-flow collapse. ❋ Sante, Luc (2003)

It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)

Crystal earrings glinted in it like the snagged fragments of broken stars; half a dozen necklaces of cheap glass beads flashed tawdrily over the open collars of an assortment of ragged, scarecrow robes and a faded shirt. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1986)

Groans and curses filled the air as men pitched headlong from their loophole posts to writhe upon the floor and once a woman's shrill scream rang out as a tawdrily clothed shape dropped across the bar. ❋ Douglas Grant (N/A)

The palace was spacious but tawdrily furnished; it is noteworthy as being the home to which the Maharaja and his family repair whenever they feel the approach of death; there is a superstition among the Hindus that death must occur on the north bank of the sacred river Ganges, in order to become a monkey after death ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women, mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust. ❋ Unknown (1931)

She gave him no greeting, but helped him off with his overcoat and then led the way into the tawdrily furnished sitting-room. ❋ Christie, Agatha (1928)

He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses. ❋ Unknown (1922)

It has been ill and tawdrily restored, with crude pigments, with gold that is too bright and too clean; but even before that, Charles V. and his successors had made additions out of harmony with Moorish feeling. ❋ Unknown (1919)

In tawdrily gorgeous apartments, where gathered the larger figures, the proconsuls of the world of crime, cold, conscienceless brains dissected the work of a colder and swifter brain than theirs, with suave and bitter envy. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been a pleasure to the eyes even of those who did not know why they were pleased. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)