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Synonyms for tawdry

Grammar : Adj
Spell : taw-dree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɔ dri

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Définition of tawdry

Origin :
  • "cheap, showy, gaudy," 1670s, adjective use of noun tawdry "silk necktie for women" (1610s), shortened from tawdry lace (1540s), an alteration of St. Audrey's lace, a necktie or ribbon sold at the annual fair at Ely on Oct. 17 commemorating St. Audrey (queen of Northumbria, died 679). Her association with cheap lace necklaces is that she supposedly died of a throat tumor, which she considered God's punishment for her youthful fondness for showy necklaces [Bede].
  • adj cheap, tasteless
Example sentences :
  • The few ornaments were new, and not at all dusty or dingy or tawdry.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The town was tawdry in its preparations--and knew it; but half sincere in its enthusiasm--and knew it.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The effect of this was certainly incongruous, not to say tawdry.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • The fire was the really great adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.
  • Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
  • The fire was the only adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.
  • Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
  • He walked into the tawdry parlour and put down his hat and stick, and waited.
  • Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
  • Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw.
  • Extract from : « The Gentle Art of Making Enemies » by James McNeill Whistler
  • The furniture in all the rooms was cheap and tawdry but fairly comfortable.
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise Solves a Mystery » by L. Frank Baum
  • It's tawdry and it's vulgar; and as for its morals, I think that it's worse than Monte Carlo.
  • Extract from : « The Uncle Of An Angel » by Thomas A. Janvier
  • As much, unfortunately, cannot be said for the tawdry statue in its canopy.
  • Extract from : « The Kensington District » by Geraldine Edith Mitton

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