tawdrily
Example Sentences
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The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
In turn, some of the late Thatcher period's entrepreneurial energy would define the moment that was rather tawdrily labelled Cool Britannia.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013
Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been a pleasure to the eyes even of those who did not know why they were pleased.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
