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Significados de tawdriness en inglés

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Tasteless showiness.

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Uso de tawdriness en inglés
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The truth is that the scene had a certain tawdriness about it.
The Irish Times
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Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
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He forgot the depressing tawdriness of his surroundings in the exhilaration of the sound.
A People's Man
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The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
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Vice looks fascinating in the gloaming; the morning shows up the tawdriness and the paint.
Without Prejudice
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His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
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The drop-piece was there in all its tawdriness.
Greenmantle
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A tawdry enchantment, or an enchanted tawdriness, spoke to him from the heart of this scene.
Black house
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Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has.
Morocco
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In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure- aMadonnawith a child.
The Tin Soldier
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The other thing is the poor tawdriness that kings and bosses crave and that shallow, snobbish people admire.
The Conflict
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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...
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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
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Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
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In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God.
The Garden of Allah
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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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Tawdriness a través del tiempo