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Meanings of tawdrily in English

In a tastelessly garish manner.

Synonyms
Examples for "gaudily"
Examples for "gaudily"
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The man clattered down the steps of the gaudily painted little structure.
'Doc.' Gordon
2
She shows Fawcett her gaudily decorated house, and talks about the neighborhood.
The new yorker
3
She was lined up between more gaudily made-up numbers, looking awfully demure.
Pinball, 1973
4
These gaudily marked beasts take queer aspects even on an open plain.
The Land of Footprints
5
Stockily built mechanics swaggered along with their simpering, gaudily dressed lady loves.
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
1
The other probes never summoned attention so garishly, across all the millennia.
Existence
2
The young woman's fingers found the rubber of the garishly painted penis.
The devil's touch
3
The young miner followed his companion's gaze through the garishly lit crowd.
Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
4
Under the beating illumination every detail of the huge vessel stood out garishly.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
5
He was a moving, illuminated target in a garishly colored gallery.
The bourne ultimatum
Usage of tawdrily in English
1
Now the stage paints rudely, often tawdrily; still it does paint.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
2
His revenge is a tawdrily readable tell-all memoir Michael Cohen is no saint.
The Guardian
3
It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious.
St. Martin's Summer
4
Both were young; both were tawdrily dressed, with many strings of beads and rings on neck and fingers.
Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain
5
It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
6
He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses.
The Glimpses of the Moon
7
Perhaps they were more like country milliners, and pupil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women.
The Uncommercial Traveller
8
Admitted to the presence of the Rajah, Chunerbutty found him reclining languidly on a pile of soft cushions on the floor of a tawdrily-decorated room.
The Elephant God
9
Tawdrily dressed girls saunter along the sidewalks, or loll from the window-sills.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
Tawdrily through the time