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Meanings of tawdriness in English
Catalan
enfarfec Spanish
ordinariez Synonyms
Examples for "loudness"
Examples for "loudness"
1
It was one-eyed, and vomited smoke, and it snorted with exceeding loudness.
2
Accuracy of aim was not so much considered as loudness of report.
3
Not that she wished to do so by any loudness of assertion.
4
So, too, loudness, softness, crescendo, diminuendo, volume, piercingness, have their emotional accompaniments.
5
In this case, attention to voice while ignoring sound loudness increased neural selectivity.
1
Toyota U.S. President Jim Lentz said he had noticed far less glitz.
2
The film festival opened this week with its usual pomp and glitz.
3
But just how much work goes into creating Hollywood glitz and glamour?
4
It's something the city badly needs, a touch of glitz and glamour.
5
See all the glitz and glamour live from Hollywood's best award shows.
1
Curiosity had gotten him in, brashness and speed had taken him out.
2
They are just kids really, all heavy scent, labels, brashness and nerves.
3
None of your Dalrei brashness that fades as the hours roll by.
4
I'm flying the flag now and have lost all my former brashness.
5
It has all the boom-era high-tech features but none of the brashness.
1
He achieves effects in gaudiness which even time Italian officer cannot equal.
2
Whatever is gaudy is offensive, and the use of many colours constitutes gaudiness.
3
Instead of gimmicks and gaudiness, the Huawei P20 Pro delivers refinement and efficiency.
4
Jureem sat next to him, his southern attire for once outmatched in gaudiness.
5
They are not remarkable for the gaudiness of their colors.
1
There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display.
2
The prismatic lantern over the door was a mixture of garishness and dust.
3
Church is serious, not meant for idle play and garishness.
4
Keynote of lighting scheme - life and gaiety, without garishness.
5
Was there not a certain garishness about her rich colouring?
1
I don't think there will be any flashiness from our guys.
2
It's less typical to see that flashiness also touted as the product's core feature.
3
I love the creativity, fashion and flashiness of the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance.
4
The annual Geneva International Motor Show isn't about Italian flashiness, French quirkiness, or American muscle.
5
Excellently dressed, without a touch of flashiness, he did look eminently respectable-andlingered a moment.
1
If not touched by city elegance, neither is it infected by city meretriciousness; it is sweet, wholesome country.
2
There was a suggestion of meretriciousness in the tinted lips and the pretence of colour on the charming face.
3
The unsuccessful woman blames, never herself, but either the outrageous meretriciousness of her rival, or the blindness of the man she loses.
Usage of tawdriness in English
1
The truth is that the scene had a certain tawdriness about it.
2
Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature.
3
He forgot the depressing tawdriness of his surroundings in the exhilaration of the sound.
4
The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness.
5
Vice looks fascinating in the gloaming; the morning shows up the tawdriness and the paint.
6
His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence.
7
The drop-piece was there in all its tawdriness.
8
A tawdry enchantment, or an enchanted tawdriness, spoke to him from the heart of this scene.
9
Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has.
10
In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure- aMadonnawith a child.
11
The other thing is the poor tawdriness that kings and bosses crave and that shallow, snobbish people admire.
12
This kind of tawdriness was something the Clintons would be involved in, she wrote, but not the Edwardses.
13
Sir Edward Fry's Commission had none of the tinsel of big names nor the tawdriness of aristocratic apathy.
14
Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness.
15
In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God.
16
Behind them, the resin-moulded tawdriness of the whoring chamber lent the whole thing an air of badly staged farce.
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Tawdriness through the time