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.

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  • adverb In a tawdry manner.

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  • adverb in a tastelessly garish manner

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Examples

  • My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Rachel 2006

  • My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it.

    Give me liberty... Rachel 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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