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tawdry

tawd ree

  • 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.
Quotes

  • 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."

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