tawdriness

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“The kind of slight unease that I think it provokes, that sense of tawdriness, I think that they really fit the book, ultimately,” Szalay said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020

His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018

This terrace opens directly into the great throne-hall, a lofty apartment of impressive proportions, though its furnishings are a bizarre mixture of Oriental taste and Occidental tawdriness.

From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)