tawdry

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Cheap and gaudy; showy
{a} meanly showy or fine, gaudy
cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality
Bought at the festival of St
Audrey
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St
Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors
Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general
If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. tawdry jewellery. = tacky
{s} loud; cheap
tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
tawdry lace
A silk ribbon or string worn as a necklace in the 16th and early-17th centuries
tawdriness
{n} a tawdry dress, tinsel finery
tawdrily
In a tawdry manner
tawdriness
{i} lack of taste; cheap decoration
tawdriness
Quality or state of being tawdry
tawdriness
The property of being tawdry
tawdry
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