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Definition of tawdry in English: tawdryadjectivetawdrier, tawdriest ˈtɔːdriˈtɔdri 1Showy but cheap and of poor quality. 俗丽而不值钱的 俗丽而不值钱的首饰。 Example sentencesExamples - Shares would drop, pop stars would be seen packing their tawdry belongings into Lear jets and jetting off to some marble mansion in the Costa Del Sol to await the return of the Tories and people would start buying gold to hide under their beds.
- Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America.
- Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house.
- Beyond Mallorca's tired and tawdry resorts lies an unspoilt, unpolluted island - and if you don't believe us, visit the rural village of Costitx, whose international observatory opened in 1991.
- Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches.
- As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow.
- The Candleglow insignia in the corner doesn't help matters, but simply emphasizes how cheap and tawdry the whole thing looks.
- For most visitors it was shabby and tawdry, with hotel rooms designed to be so uncomfortable that you had to go downstairs and gamble.
- To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
- The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
- I know that with all the ghastly images on TV and tawdry clothing worn by most that bad messages are sent to the young mind.
- Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
- The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street.
- The place where Wuornos was arrested - a tawdry biker joint in Florida's Daytona Beach called The Last Resort, where women's underwear hangs above the bar - draws the curious.
- All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism.
- They were once looked down upon as the tawdry poor relations of the fashion industry.
- With a whole new series of wallpapers and floors in leopard-print and fake gold, you can decorate your brothel to give it that gaudy, tawdry look that will have the punters coming back for more.
- Which is saying something, considering the sleazy, tawdry appearance she presented.
- It was so tawdry and cheap looking, I couldn't resist.
- Nor do Israeli presidents wear plastic sunglasses, carry pistols to the U.N., or have chests full of cheap and tawdry metals.
Synonyms gaudy, flashy, showy, garish, loud tasteless, vulgar, brash, crass, rubbishy, trashy, junky, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapjack, paltry, worthless, shoddy, shabby, meretricious, plastic, tinselly, gimcrack, Brummagem informal flash, tatty, tacky, kitsch British informal twopenny-halfpenny - 1.1 Sordid or unpleasant.
肮脏的；讨厌的 the tawdry business of politics 肮脏的政治交易。 Example sentencesExamples - This may evade privacy restrictions but is cheap and tawdry at best.
- And rather than the fake documents pointing to a global conspiracy implicating half the statesmen of the western world, might there not be a rather more tawdry, banal explanation for the Telegraph documents?
- If we can somehow do that, then we will have the diverse regional parts of this big blue marble as a permanent stage on which to play out our mostly tawdry - but occasionally splendid - human dramas.
- Second, a sense that writers, readers and books should dwell in a pure, fluffy space in the clouds, removed from tawdry concerns of image… or even, perhaps, human physicality.
- What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
- There has been much criticism of this strategy, some from me, but in a way the strategy in itself is contributing to a positive perception that the National leader is somehow above indulging in these tawdry games.
- Liberals read more broadly and deeply, so their intellect infuses the entire catalog, or even all of Western literature, not just a few tawdry best sellers.
- They are cheap, tawdry politicians not worthy of anything other than contempt.
- The silky relationship between art and fashion may seem charming but is often a tawdry, corrupting, even whorish affair.
- Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal.
- Women seeking counsel on how to get the most out of their husbands can dip into a river of self-help books, tawdry daytime TV shows and features that dramatize the female author's plight in women's magazines.
- Others think this can only be a good thing, saying the outdoor advertising industry has long been seen as tawdry and tasteless.
- However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock.
- These tired statements are in aid of the staff recommendation for a tired and tawdry idea from the '80s - that Toronto should prepare a bid to host the World Expo here in 2015.
- Not only did he disapprove of gay marriage, but refused to even give relationship status to gay and lesbian couples, preferring the tawdry term ‘liaisons’.
- But even with all its tawdry details, the case raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants.
- In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government.
- Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom… What a cheap and tawdry political trick.
- Obviously some tipsters do better than others, otherwise they would go out of business - you would be surprised how many do, only to surface under another name and charge even more for their tawdry nonsense.
- That, I told myself, is only the stuff you read about in cheap, tawdry romance novels (which I happen to write).
Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting
noun ˈtɔːdriˈtɔdri mass nounarchaic Cheap and gaudy finery. 〈古〉俗丽而廉价的服饰 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
Derivativesadverb They are very friendly, are not so tawdrily decorated as those we saw below, and use little or no paint. Example sentencesExamples - My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it.
- You find yourself much too ugly to go shopping in that bright mall with all these tawdrily dressed and rouged people?
- The orchestra takes it up, dressed rather tawdrily (trumpet doubling violins) before the soloist brings in a tender, slower contrast.
- Set in a seedy nightclub, complete with would-be Las Vegas tawdrily gilded palm trees, beautifully realised by designer Imogen Cloët, it is part-cabaret and part-monologue, slipping easily from speech to song and back again.
noun ˈtɔːdrɪnəsˈtɔdrinəs For, whatever the Age's tawdriness and corruption, Hamlet shares that Age's unique magnificence, in considerable part a product of aesthetic greediness. Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the Gilded Age involved far more than gilt, tawdriness, and corruption.
- To say nothing of the undocumented - and maybe undocumentable - tawdriness and sordidness that lay ahead.
- But I don't think tawdriness defines an interesting life.
- The sordid prostituting of the Playboy bunnies underscores the tawdriness of so many of the ‘entertainments’ devised for the troops.
OriginEarly 17th century: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th cents, contraction of St Audrey's lace: Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair. Tawdry was originally short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th and 17th centuries, a contraction of the original term St Audrey's lace. Audrey was a Latinized form of Etheldreda, name of the 7th-century patron saint of Ely, who was said to have worn many showy necklaces in her youth, before she became a nun. When she became terminally ill with a throat tumour she saw her illness as retribution for her vanity. Tawdry laces, along with other finery, were traditionally sold at St Etheldreda's Fair in Ely, and their cheapness and poor quality led to the modern associations of tawdry.
Definition of tawdry in US English: tawdryadjectiveˈtôdrēˈtɔdri 1Showy but cheap and of poor quality. 俗丽而不值钱的 俗丽而不值钱的首饰。 Example sentencesExamples - The Candleglow insignia in the corner doesn't help matters, but simply emphasizes how cheap and tawdry the whole thing looks.
- Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house.
- They were once looked down upon as the tawdry poor relations of the fashion industry.
- The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
- All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism.
- It was so tawdry and cheap looking, I couldn't resist.
- I know that with all the ghastly images on TV and tawdry clothing worn by most that bad messages are sent to the young mind.
- The place where Wuornos was arrested - a tawdry biker joint in Florida's Daytona Beach called The Last Resort, where women's underwear hangs above the bar - draws the curious.
- As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow.
- Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
- To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
- Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches.
- The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street.
- Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America.
- Beyond Mallorca's tired and tawdry resorts lies an unspoilt, unpolluted island - and if you don't believe us, visit the rural village of Costitx, whose international observatory opened in 1991.
- Nor do Israeli presidents wear plastic sunglasses, carry pistols to the U.N., or have chests full of cheap and tawdry metals.
- For most visitors it was shabby and tawdry, with hotel rooms designed to be so uncomfortable that you had to go downstairs and gamble.
- Which is saying something, considering the sleazy, tawdry appearance she presented.
- Shares would drop, pop stars would be seen packing their tawdry belongings into Lear jets and jetting off to some marble mansion in the Costa Del Sol to await the return of the Tories and people would start buying gold to hide under their beds.
- With a whole new series of wallpapers and floors in leopard-print and fake gold, you can decorate your brothel to give it that gaudy, tawdry look that will have the punters coming back for more.
Synonyms gaudy, flashy, showy, garish, loud - 1.1 Sordid or unpleasant.
肮脏的；讨厌的 the tawdry business of politics 肮脏的政治交易。 Example sentencesExamples - And rather than the fake documents pointing to a global conspiracy implicating half the statesmen of the western world, might there not be a rather more tawdry, banal explanation for the Telegraph documents?
- If we can somehow do that, then we will have the diverse regional parts of this big blue marble as a permanent stage on which to play out our mostly tawdry - but occasionally splendid - human dramas.
- But even with all its tawdry details, the case raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants.
- There has been much criticism of this strategy, some from me, but in a way the strategy in itself is contributing to a positive perception that the National leader is somehow above indulging in these tawdry games.
- Not only did he disapprove of gay marriage, but refused to even give relationship status to gay and lesbian couples, preferring the tawdry term ‘liaisons’.
- Liberals read more broadly and deeply, so their intellect infuses the entire catalog, or even all of Western literature, not just a few tawdry best sellers.
- Obviously some tipsters do better than others, otherwise they would go out of business - you would be surprised how many do, only to surface under another name and charge even more for their tawdry nonsense.
- Second, a sense that writers, readers and books should dwell in a pure, fluffy space in the clouds, removed from tawdry concerns of image… or even, perhaps, human physicality.
- Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom… What a cheap and tawdry political trick.
- In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government.
- Others think this can only be a good thing, saying the outdoor advertising industry has long been seen as tawdry and tasteless.
- The silky relationship between art and fashion may seem charming but is often a tawdry, corrupting, even whorish affair.
- These tired statements are in aid of the staff recommendation for a tired and tawdry idea from the '80s - that Toronto should prepare a bid to host the World Expo here in 2015.
- Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal.
- Women seeking counsel on how to get the most out of their husbands can dip into a river of self-help books, tawdry daytime TV shows and features that dramatize the female author's plight in women's magazines.
- This may evade privacy restrictions but is cheap and tawdry at best.
- They are cheap, tawdry politicians not worthy of anything other than contempt.
- What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
- However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock.
- That, I told myself, is only the stuff you read about in cheap, tawdry romance novels (which I happen to write).
Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting
nounˈtôdrēˈtɔdri archaic Cheap and gaudy finery. 〈古〉俗丽而廉价的服饰 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
OriginEarly 17th century: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th centuries, contraction of St Audrey's lace: Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair. |