tawdry 的 2 个定义
taw·dri·er, taw·dri·est.
- gaudy; showy and cheap.
- low or mean; base: tawdry motives.
- cheap, gaudy apparel.
tawdry 近义词
cheap, tasteless
更多tawdry例句
- The site of a massacre ordered by British officers more than a century ago, the somber memorial has recently been given what several observers have called a tawdry makeover.
- It has been reclaimed by some as a marker of empowerment and by others as a critical satire of male bravado and tawdry, art-world branding.
- We hear Ruby, “the owner of tawdry nightclubs and strip clubs,” telling a reporter in a choked voice, “I love this city because there is so much culture here.”
- There is, however, one unsung hero to this otherwise tawdry story.
- The show has been accused of peddling the kind of tawdry sentiment that has driven the inhabitants of Detroit to distraction.
- So, why is it, then that are there so few movies lately that are not jaded, tawdry, humorlessly moralistic, or amorally violent?
- But using donors to enrich oneself is as an old and tawdry practice that is about getting rich, not famous.
- The tawdry details of the Clinton scandals differed, but the basic narrative was one to which Americans were becoming inured.
- In the centre of this table stood a tawdry Japanese vase, worth, perhaps, five or six shillings.
- Even the children were not whimpering, the tawdry women were not hysterical, not a parrot raised his voice nor a dog whined.
- The fire was the really great adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.
- Singularly enough, this modest lady gave the origin to the word “tawdry,” so Thornbury declares.
- Can't you see what a miserable sham the thing is—a cheap, tawdry imitation of the splendid classic type?