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- Dictionarytawdry/ˈtɔːdri/
adjective
- 1. showy but cheap and of poor quality: "tawdry jewellery"
noun
- 1. cheap and gaudy finery. archaic
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Tawdry means cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality, or morally sordid, base, or distasteful. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and related words of tawdry from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Tawdry means looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality, or showing or having low moral standards. Learn more about this adjective, its usage and related words from Cambridge Dictionary.
Tawdry means looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality, or showing or having low moral standards. Learn more about this adjective, its usage and related words from Cambridge Dictionary.
Tawdry means cheap and showy, or unpleasant or immoral. It comes from a shortened form of St. Audrey lace, a necklace sold at a fair in England. See synonyms, examples, and word origin.
Tawdry definition: (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.. See examples of TAWDRY used in a sentence.
Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs.
Tawdry means cheap, showy, and of poor quality, or shameful and indecent. It comes from tawdry lace, a type of finery sold at a fair in Ely, England. See examples, translations, and related words.
