Significados de as tawdry em inglês

He made in this condition the whole room as tawdry as a tavern tap.

What I saw struck me as tawdry, not grand; as grossly material, not poetically spiritual.

Yet the producer suggested that CNN views HLN as more sensationalist and the stories it pursues as tawdry.

His own guests, though they don't disdain his immense hospitality, regard his estate as tawdry and vulgar, I discover.

She had caught a glimpse of something so much better, that her former world looked as tawdry as the mimic scenery of a second-rate theatre.

As for human nature, it's as tawdry as ever.