Tawdry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAWDRY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• trumpery, tawdry-lace
• cheap and gaudy finery.
• A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey\'s fair; hence, a necklace in general.
• gaudy finery of poor quality
ADJECTIVE:
• cheap, trashy
• showy but cheap and of poor quality
• sordid or unpleasant
• cheap, showy, and of poor quality
• tastelessly showy
• cheap and shoddy

Words related to TAWDRY

tawdrier12 tawdries12 tawdriest13 tawdrily15 tawdriness14

How to use TAWDRY in a sentence

• The peoples of the world have had their taste corrupted by floods of the cheap and tawdry.
• The light spread, touching the bare walls and tawdry decorations about the shrines.
• It stands like a great fortress of the Middle Ages in a quadrangle of cheap brick and white dwelling-houses, and a few mean shops and tawdry saloons.
• Society was rotten, the state a pious criminal, the old truths tawdry lies.
• Beside him even the venerable head of the university looked tawdry and small.
• It will be great art, I tell you, and wonder cities will arise that will make tawdry and cheap the cities of old time.
• The looms were watched by women, most of them bold, tawdry girls of fifteen or sixteen, or lean-jawed women from the hills, wives of the coal-diggers.
• The fire of London is vigorously pictured, but its breath of flame should have burned up petty conceit and tawdry ornament.
• Every one knows how tawdry the ball-dress looks in the clear morning light.
• Men who wore feathered hats and tawdry uniforms filled the landscape.
• At night, however, they blossomed forth in tawdry finery, in the dancing-space behind the gambling-tables.
• Waste not your admiration, interest, hope on it, its pretty toys, gay fashions, fine clothes, tawdry luxuries, silly amusements.
• Her tawdry refinement irritated the more serious manner of his mood.
• The church at the foot of the hill, Santa Maria degli Angeli, seems tawdry after Assisi.
• If you say that popular fiction is vulgar and tawdry, you only say what the dreary and well-informed say also about the images in the Catholic churches.
• Down below in the camp the fire burned low, its flame looking ineffectual and tawdry in the flushed splendor of the sunrise.
• Umbrellas, flags, and the tawdry paraphernalia used in processions were hanging from the beams.
• On our return home every structure appeared flaring and tawdry.
• There was some tawdry jewellery lying about, and several pairs of the pale-hued Parisian boots she invariably affected.
• Beaucaire, as his point passed through a tawdry waistcoat.
• A servant admitted me, but I had to wait alone for a quarter of an hour or more in the stuffy and rather tawdry luxury of a great drawing-room.
• There were the same tawdry ornaments on the mantel-piece, and the same books on the dusty shelf.
• I perceived that the ideals of my life were tawdry, that even the best were poor little things.
• It had the further disadvantage, by reason of its tawdry appeals of color and light, of making one feel like a tourist.
• Both apartments were hung with engravings and French prints and decorated with tawdry curtains, and in the larger of the two dancing was going on.

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