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Significats de tawdry en anglès

Tastelessly showy.

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Cheap and shoddy.

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Examples for "shoddy"
Examples for "shoddy"
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Social work and social workers often receive shoddy treatment from the media.
The Guardian
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His words were widely seen as justification for illegal and shoddy construction.
Reuters
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The problem is not that Beck sends people to a shoddy company.
Tears of a clown: glenn beck and the tea bagging of america
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That disaster fueled anger over reports of shoddy construction, among other shortcomings.
Reuters
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He said WaMu made hundreds of billions of dollars in shoddy loans.
Reuters
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Yet honestly, half my fellows might easily serve as models to any literary cheapjack of the moment.
The Altar Steps
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It must be cheapjack construction, the worst crap, if one chopper could set up such reverberations in its walls.
Dark rivers of the heart
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Good letters raise the tone of a business house, poor letters give the idea that it is a cheapjack concern.
The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language / Word-Study ...
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She resembles some old-fashioned, quiet merchant, too dignified to compete with Frankish cheapjacks.
The Valley of the Kings
Ús de tawdry en anglès
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Sometimes he had given the tawdry claims more credence than at others.
The double bind
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I try to focus on outlandish scenarios, images of exotic, tawdry humiliation.
Cleaving
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The door opened, and in marched Mrs. Trebooze, tall, tawdry, and terrible.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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The supper-room, garish and tawdry in its decorations, was functioning as usual.
The Pretty Lady
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The decorations do not seem tawdry, nor the tinsel other than real.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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And so she always nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
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The music remains wonderful, but it is shortchanged by the tawdry presentation.
The Irish Times
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I will not redeem you of whatever tawdry tragedy brings you here.
The Scar
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When he put it that way, it sounded both tawdry and hopeless.
Cleopatra's Moon
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No tawdry ornaments, no glaring pictures, disgraced the sanctity of the place.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
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The flowers in bloom make the buildings look all the more tawdry.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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It was clean without smelling of flowers and inexpensive without being tawdry.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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The Enquirer also teases some other tawdry details about the Houston viewing.
Reuters
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There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
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Here lay half of it, hidden beneath a tawdry square of pasteboard.
The Spoilers
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It is spacious but tawdry, and its plate-glass gives one a shock.
A Wanderer in Venice
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