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   tawdry

   /ˈtɔːdri/

   adjective

   • 1. showy but cheap and of poor quality: "tawdry jewellery"
   • ▪ sordid or unpleasant: "the tawdry business of politics"

   noun

   • 1. cheap and gaudy finery. archaic

   Word Origin early 17th century: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th centuries, contraction of St Audrey's lace: Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tawdrily adverb
   • 2. tawdriness noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   TAWDRY definition: 1. looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality: 2. showing or having low…. Learn more.

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   The meaning of TAWDRY is cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality. How to use tawdry in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Tawdry.

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   If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. ...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality. ...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining.

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   Tawdry definition: (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.. See examples of TAWDRY used in a sentence.

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   Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs.

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   Definition of tawdry adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.