tawdry
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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
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"Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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