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Meanings of tawdriness in English

Catalan
enfarfec
Spanish
ordinariez

Tasteless showiness.

enfarfec
Usage of tawdriness in English
1
The truth is that the scene had a certain tawdriness about it.
The Irish Times
2
Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
3
He forgot the depressing tawdriness of his surroundings in the exhilaration of the sound.
A People's Man
4
The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
5
Vice looks fascinating in the gloaming; the morning shows up the tawdriness and the paint.
Without Prejudice
6
His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
7
The drop-piece was there in all its tawdriness.
Greenmantle
8
A tawdry enchantment, or an enchanted tawdriness, spoke to him from the heart of this scene.
Black house
9
Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has.
Morocco
10
In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure- aMadonnawith a child.
The Tin Soldier
11
The other thing is the poor tawdriness that kings and bosses crave and that shallow, snobbish people admire.
The Conflict
12
This kind of tawdriness was something the Clintons would be involved in, she wrote, but not the Edwardses.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
13
Sir Edward Fry's Commission had none of the tinsel of big names nor the tawdriness of aristocratic apathy.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
14
Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
15
In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God.
The Garden of Allah
16
Behind them, the resin-moulded tawdriness of the whoring chamber lent the whole thing an air of badly staged farce.
Broken angels
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