tawdriness

Example Sentences

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His story is a little rushed but we get the idea that Tim’s not a jerk, just an idealist who can’t handle the tawdriness of the 21st century.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

But its enthusiastic tawdriness is still captivating, as attested by the reboot’s decent ratings.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 14, 2019

His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018

The lithographic pictures of the stations to Calvary were, of course, on its walls, and there was the ordinary tawdriness of paint and carving about the high altar.

From A Chance Acquaintance by Howells, William Dean