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• s  tastelessly showy
  tawdry ornaments
• s  cheap and shoddy

• It makes us feel tawdry, dirty, cheap if it didn't, we probably wouldn't bother tuning in.
• PTI has obtained part of a neatly typed manuscript that is a sometimes semiliterate mixture of blissful and tawdry.
• They're tawdry, they're tacky, and they're not even all that "real.

• brassy
• cheap
• flash
• flashy
• garish
• gaudy
• gimcrack
• loud
• meretricious
• tacky
• tatty
• trashy
• cheapjack
• shoddy

News & Articles

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• The Spitzer Myth: Sex Scandals Are Not Political Poison
  Political comebacks after tawdry behavior aren't the exception. They're the rule.        
  July 9, 2013 - The Atlantic

Quotes

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• Bob Brown in Sydney Morning Herald
  Hicks will come home before Christmas so that Howard can get home before Christmas. It is very tawdry,Senator Brown said in a statement.
• Lynne Cheney in MSNBC
  The vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, called Kerry "not a good man" and his remarks about daughter Mary Cheney "a cheap and tawdry political trick."