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tawdry ADJ

tawdry N (jewellery & gems)

tawdry

tawdry

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
It doesn't get tawdry, distasteful or anything resembling exploitative.
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Scratch the surface and it is all very tawdry.
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It's all something of a contrast to the area's tawdry past.
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It's a stunning way to highlight the tawdry universality of the experience.
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Words like shabby and tawdry come to mind.
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What a miserable, tawdry end for a party with such noble antecedents.
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The clubs might be tawdry, but the women working in them have dreams and fantasies.
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He'd long been a tabloid horror show, and so there was no great surprise that his parting was somewhat tawdry.
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Intellectually, the so-called "debate" is so tawdry and farcical that hysteria always wins.
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His friends think he would have been secretly pleased that the city he loved was honouring him, even with a tawdry gazebo.
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