Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tawdry manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tawdry manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
tawdry manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a tastelessly garish manner
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Examples
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My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it.
Archive 2006-03-01 Rachel 2006
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My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it.
Give me liberty... Rachel 2006
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Stax/Volt was a noble record company which issued many sides of enduring value at a significant time in interracial cultural history, but its story is less a parable than an account of managerial failure and tawdrily protracted cash-flow collapse.
One Nation Under a Groove Sante, Luc 2003
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It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Crystal earrings glinted in it like the snagged fragments of broken stars; half a dozen necklaces of cheap glass beads flashed tawdrily over the open collars of an assortment of ragged, scarecrow robes and a faded shirt.
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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