Definition of Tawdry

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Tawdry

Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

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.

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Tawdry Quotations

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Oliver Reed

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

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

Tawdry Translations

tawdry in German is kitschig, flitterhaft
tawdry in Swedish is uttstyrd

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