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Meanings of tawdry in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shoddy"
Examples for "shoddy"
1
Social work and social workers often receive shoddy treatment from the media.
2
His words were widely seen as justification for illegal and shoddy construction.
3
The problem is not that Beck sends people to a shoddy company.
4
That disaster fueled anger over reports of shoddy construction, among other shortcomings.
5
He said WaMu made hundreds of billions of dollars in shoddy loans.
1
Yet honestly, half my fellows might easily serve as models to any literary cheapjack of the moment.
2
It must be cheapjack construction, the worst crap, if one chopper could set up such reverberations in its walls.
3
Good letters raise the tone of a business house, poor letters give the idea that it is a cheapjack concern.
4
She resembles some old-fashioned, quiet merchant, too dignified to compete with Frankish cheapjacks.
Usage of tawdry in English
1
Sometimes he had given the tawdry claims more credence than at others.
2
I try to focus on outlandish scenarios, images of exotic, tawdry humiliation.
3
The door opened, and in marched Mrs. Trebooze, tall, tawdry, and terrible.
4
The supper-room, garish and tawdry in its decorations, was functioning as usual.
5
The decorations do not seem tawdry, nor the tinsel other than real.
6
And so she always nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition.
7
The music remains wonderful, but it is shortchanged by the tawdry presentation.
8
I will not redeem you of whatever tawdry tragedy brings you here.
9
When he put it that way, it sounded both tawdry and hopeless.
10
No tawdry ornaments, no glaring pictures, disgraced the sanctity of the place.
11
The flowers in bloom make the buildings look all the more tawdry.
12
It was clean without smelling of flowers and inexpensive without being tawdry.
13
The Enquirer also teases some other tawdry details about the Houston viewing.
14
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
15
Here lay half of it, hidden beneath a tawdry square of pasteboard.
16
It is spacious but tawdry, and its plate-glass gives one a shock.
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Tawdry across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common