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tawdry

[taw-dree] / ˈtɔ dri /


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Tawdry allegations surfaced about CBS’ morning news anchor, Charlie Rose, and Moonves and CBS News executives shoved the legendary newsman out the door.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2022

Tawdry allegations about his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes — that she had falsified tax forms and been paid consulting fees to influence her future husband, among many other charges — have dogged Kitzhaber.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2015

Tawdry or frivolous, gallant, polemical or profound, the theater is the place where man speaks to man about man in his living presence.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tawdry details came back of stove and littered table and ungainly chairs, and of swollen hands and swollen eyes.

From The Guarded Heights by Camp, Wadsworth




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