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- adjective
superlative form oftawdry : mosttawdry .
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Examples
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By the tawdriest of tricks, Joan was found guilty -- of the crime of wearing men's clothes.
Don C. Reed: Joan of Arc, and the Trial of Stem Cell Research 2010
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In similar vein, Perry Anderson mentioned, in his latest book, The New Old World, the recent eclipse of centre-left parties throughout Europe, before adding that "the pit of contempt into which New Labour has fallen, in the closing stages of the tawdriest regime in postwar British history, is an extreme case".
My generation squandered our golden opportunity | Geoffrey Wheatcroft 2010
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By the tawdriest of tricks, Joan was found guilty -- of the crime of wearing men's clothes.
Don C. Reed: Joan of Arc, and the Trial of Stem Cell Research 2010
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In fact, it seems as if Dylan would've been happy being part of the musical generation that came immediately before him -- the ones who had no hope for any but the cheapest, tawdriest, and most fleeting kind of fame.
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Out of all those revelations, one of the tawdriest is Daphne's other life as Maryann's pig.
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They stuffed it full of tarted-up sucker-bait production numbers, the tawdriest of which was a dream ballet in which the title character dances “Swan Lake” with his grown-up self, flying through the mist-filled air at the end of a piano wire while the orchestra blasts out Tchaikovsky.
Broadway’s No-Hitter 2009
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Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV – and this country is going to eat her up, cheering every step of the way.
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Dirty Sexy Money wins my vote as this season's cheapest, tawdriest indulgence.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008
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