| tawdry definition | tastelessly showy; cheap and gaudy |
| tawdry synonyms | gaudy, garish, showy, loud, flashy, cheap, tasteless, glaring, meretricious, raffish, tinsel, brassy, gimcrack |
| tawdry antonyms | tasteful, elegant, stylish, refined, graceful, unostentatious, unflashy |
| tawdry usage | Her new cerise dress has been a failure, and makes her look tawdry and wan. (source: E. M. Forster in 'A Room With A View') Look what a tawdry and vulgar thing an embroidered slipper is on a woman's foot. (source: James F. Cooper in 'Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief') Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public houses at the corner. (source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 'Sign of the Four') ..and often have I seen your waxen dolls, with their tawdry clothes and glass eyes.. (source: James Fenimore Cooper in 'The Prairie') I wanted no plot by the time she reached her destination, a street of tawdry shops (source: James Matthew Barrie in 'The Little White Bird') It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding-cake. (source: Oscar Wilde in 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray') A pair of tawdry ruffles dangled at his wrists, while his throat was nearly bare (source: Charles Dickens in 'Barnaby Rudge') Over it hang some fifty gold and silver lamps, which are kept always burning, and the place is otherwise scandalized by trumpery, gewgaws, and tawdry ornamentation (source: Mark Twain in 'The Innocents Abroad') Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime. (source: Jack London in 'The Sea Wolf') The last scene of her dismal Vanity Fair comedy was fast approaching; the tawdry lamps were going out one by one; and the dark curtain was almost ready to descend. (source: William Makepeace Thackeray in 'Vanity Fair') Walking what were then tawdry streets of the nation's capital, she was mortified by the cheap souvenir stands and x-rated movie houses that, she said, had no business on what should be the greatest boulevards in the world. (source: Voice of America newscast) |
| tawdry slang | chintzy, junky, tacky |
| tawdry definition | lacking in human decency |
| tawdry synonyms | shameful, indecent, vulgar, mean-spirited |
| tawdry antonyms | decent |
| tawdry usage | What a cheap and tawdry political trick! (source: Voice of America newscast) Elsewhere in London, British Health Minister John Reid said any possible transfer of British troops into northern Iraq, under U.S. command, would be dictated by operational needs, and would not be a "tawdry political deal" to boost President Bush's election prospects. (source: Voice of America newscast) |
