tawdriness
- n tasteless showiness
- Political implications too: an ambitious energy-independence campaign would divert attention from the current congressional tawdriness, the Tom DeLay scandal, the Terri .
- The secular response to the tawdriness of contemporary life was not uplifting; it largely amounted to a mingy, mean spirited vindictiveness, a searching for scapegoats.
- True to Klein form with its lean cut and absence of adornment, the shapely dress pays stunning tribute to the female body without a hint of tawdriness.