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

It isn't only that every day changed one's general outlook, but also that a boy fluctuates between phases of quite adult understanding and phases of tawdrily magnificent puerility.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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

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

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson