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Tawdry Common

Tawdry has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

Tawdry lace.

Adjective
1

tastelessly showy

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

2

made of inferior workmanship and materials

"cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"

3

Cheap and gaudy; showy.

Example Sentences
"a flash car" adjective
"a flashy ring" adjective
"garish colors" adjective
"a gaudy costume" adjective
"loud sport shirts" adjective
"a meretricious yet stylish book" adjective
"tawdry ornaments" adjective
"cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob" adjective
See Also
tawdrily lechy tabloidize shameful cheap showy audrey skank
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
dry adry undry updry andry redry bawdry tendry pendry hendry fordry airdry landry on dry sundry lardry daldry fladry guidry blowdry
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