Tawdry

Word TAWDRY
Character 6
Hyphenation taw dry
Pronunciations /ˈtɔːdɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Tawdry"

What do we mean by tawdry?

Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. synonym: garish. adjective

Shameful or indecent. adjective

Cheap and gaudy finery. noun

A piece of rustic or cheap finery; a necklace, as of strung beads; a ribbon. noun

Characterized by cheap finery; gaudy; showy and tasteless; having too much or misapplied ornament; cheap; worthless.

Synonyms Tawdry, Gaudy. That which is tawdry has lost whatever freshness or elegance it has had, but is worn as if it were fresh, tasteful, and elegant, or it may be a cheap and ostentatious imitation of what is rich or costly; that which is gaudy challenges the eye by brilliant color or combinations of colors, but is not in good taste.

A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. noun

Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. adjective

Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy adjective

Cheap and gaudy; showy. adjective

Tastelessly showy adjective

Cheap and shoddy adjective

Tawdry lace.

Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

The adjective tawdry is slang for scandelous. Urban Dictionary

A flashy bitch who has no taste whatsoever Urban Dictionary

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The word "tawdry" in example sentences

Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity ❋ Newmania (2007)

He blamed ABC News for broadcasting an interview that he called "tawdry and inappropriate," but he did not directly respond to the account from his former wife, to whom he was married for 18 years. ❋ By JEFF ZELENY (2012)

The word tawdry has appeared in 61 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 12 in "On the Bow'ry," by Dan ❋ By THE LEARNING NETWORK (2010)

Here is a senator who pled guilty to a misdemeanor in what can best be described as tawdry circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Settling herself down to a review of her past as a preliminary to the consideration of her future, and hunting in it to begin with for any justification of that distressing word tawdry, the next thing she knew was that she wasn't thinking about this at all, but had somehow switched on to Mr. Wilkins. ❋ Unknown (1922)

This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious. ❋ Unknown (1905)

It's just cheap and tawdry, which is what FOX is about anyways. upright left Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

He also talked about his love of things "tawdry" and how time apart heats up their sex life. ❋ Katy Hall (2011)

The novelist Thackeray, for instance, ridiculed Lawrence's flashy values in Vanity Fair (1847), and attacked his female portraits as "tawdry". ❋ Richard Holmes (2010)

During his fake 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Colbert admitted it was "tawdry" and "cheapened the process" when his coverage of the race was called "The Hail to the Cheese Stephen Colbert Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008 Presidential Campaign." ❋ Don Steinberg (2011)

Note that this is all grounded in a kind of tawdry knock-off of the Green Lantern Theory. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You throw phrases like "tawdry" and "humiliation", and insinuate that she is so devastated by Bill she can't handle being President. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fact that at some level she is mad at her husband and wounded by him — and that she knows he might at any moment get her caught up in some kind of tawdry replay of Monicagate — is inescapable. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Destroyer of Coney Island he didn't like the "tawdry" amusement parks and replaced them with low income housing and, if you ever listened to Walter O'Malley, the man who forced the Dodgers to leave Brooklyn and move to Los Angeles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You know it's just such typical tabloid journalism to try to cheapen a lovely relationship into some kind of tawdry hookup that's all about the Benjamins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sean--Does the image of your mother bent over a couch with your father going at her doggy style seem less "tawdry" to you? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

I [told] her to take her tawdry [ass] [home]. ❋ WhiteGirl2005 (2005)

omg! [thats] girl [jenna] and her [family] are so tawdry. ❋ Smaddog (2008)

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