Sometimes he had given the tawdry claims more credence than at others.

I try to focus on outlandish scenarios, images of exotic, tawdry humiliation.

The door opened, and in marched Mrs. Trebooze, tall, tawdry, and terrible.

The supper-room, garish and tawdry in its decorations, was functioning as usual.

The decorations do not seem tawdry, nor the tinsel other than real.

And so she always nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition.

The music remains wonderful, but it is shortchanged by the tawdry presentation.

I will not redeem you of whatever tawdry tragedy brings you here.

When he put it that way, it sounded both tawdry and hopeless.

No tawdry ornaments, no glaring pictures, disgraced the sanctity of the place.

The flowers in bloom make the buildings look all the more tawdry.

It was clean without smelling of flowers and inexpensive without being tawdry.

The Enquirer also teases some other tawdry details about the Houston viewing.

There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.

Here lay half of it, hidden beneath a tawdry square of pasteboard.

It is spacious but tawdry, and its plate-glass gives one a shock.