tawdriness
Example Sentences
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In reality, it’s a bit of a down-the-middle thriller that flirts with tawdriness as it presents the inner workings of the highly secretive Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
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
“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
The media coverage of this case was, and remains, almost unparalleled in its tawdriness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2016
"Not a very reputable acquaintance, I should imagine," said the great manufacturer, looking thoughtfully down at the bedraggled tawdriness of the dead man's attire.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill
