tawdrily

Example Sentences

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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 Phillips, David Graham

Perhaps they were more like country milliners, and pupil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

It made the surrounding array of pretty silver cups and engraved medals look tawdrily insignificant.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

In tawdrily gorgeous apartments, where gathered the larger figures, the proconsuls of the world of crime, cold, conscienceless brains dissected the work of a colder and swifter brain than theirs, with suave and bitter envy.

From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery