tawdry in English
I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals.
Use "tawdry" in a sentence
1. A woman regarded as gaudy or tawdry.
2. A tawdry illusion to dupe humans!
3. 2 synonyms for Cheapjack: shoddy, tawdry
4. She saw herself as shallow, tawdry.
5. Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
6. It seems a tawdry nightmare, looking back.
7. I don't think you'd want anything that tawdry, do you?
8. Do you attend operas , or do you read tawdry novels ?
9. The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
10. Masterfully, in that moment, Pennington shades Peter's love innocent rather than tawdry.
11. Am I wrong to refuse to capitulate to this tawdry behaviour?
12. Sheldon : You want me to use my intelligence in tawdry competition?
13. His apartment was a tasteful disappointment, clashing with his tawdry appearance.
14. But then, the world oldest profession has always been a bit tawdry.
15. 18 Her successes are dismissed as tawdry, her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated.
16. Her successes are dismissed as tawdry, her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated.
17. I even found a measure of excitement in this new, if tawdry, existence.
18. As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
19. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
20. Everywhere you looked in this hour-long special, there was some tawdry scene being enacted.
21. Maybe we should resist the tawdry temptation of some Transatlantic travelling courtesy of air miles?
22. A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
23. Synonyms for Brummagem include flashy, showy, loud, tacky, garish, tawdry, glaring, meretricious, cheap and glitzy
24. A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square.
25. The place was all tawdry bars, dance-halls and flop-houses that were also houses of assignation.
26. Synonyms for 'Cheapjack': cheap, tawdry, tacky, downmarket, trashy, gimcrack, jerry-built, bargain basement, cheap and nasty, cheaply, cheapo
27. 19 Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
28. Inferior in quality or value; tawdry: "Cheapjack moviemaking that feeds on the low taste of the mob" .
29. A clothes-line hangs between two high windows[sentence dictionary], hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
30. It is now a tawdry tourist symbol, an elaborately frosted wedding-cake up which climbing companies yo-yo hundreds of clients.
31. What a vile, tawdry rabble my relatives are and what a sad, desiccated bunch of hyenas most of them have become.
32. Author Brian Aldiss called the story a "tawdry illiterate tale" and a "sorry concoction", while author and editor Lester del Rey called it "simply dreadful."
33. With its bold red-yellow-and-blue covers, screaming headlines, and tawdry stories, Confidential exploded the candy-coated image of movie stars that Hollywood and the press had sold to the public
34. All that could be told was, that the richer Chinese take delight in thus Bedizening their wives on high days and holidays; not with tawdry cheap finery, but with things really expensive, and worth
35. The Burglar (1957), a sweaty, tawdry pulp crime thriller set in the seedy lower depths of low-rent crooks and raw passions, was released as the classic studio system -- and the era of prime film noir -- was coming to an end
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37. Bedizen (v.) "deck, dress up" (especially with tawdry or vulgar finery), 1660s, from be- + dizen "to dress" (1610s), especially, from late 18c., "to dress finely, adorn," originally "to dress (a distaff) for spinning" (1520s), and evidently the verbal form of the first element in distaff.
38. Cheapjack: 1 adj cheap and shoddy “" Cheapjack moviemakingthat feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist” Synonyms: shoddy , tawdry inferior of low or inferior quality n a peddler of inferior goods Type of: hawker , packman , peddler , pedlar , pitchman someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)