Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. Giles Gilbert Scott
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again. Oliver Reed
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do. Errol Morris
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. Edmund Leach
