tawdriness

Example Sentences

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“The kind of slight unease that I think it provokes, that sense of tawdriness, I think that they really fit the book, ultimately,” Szalay said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

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

“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

The media coverage of this case was, and remains, almost unparalleled in its tawdriness.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2016

Looking back at that incident he was sensible of its poverty and tawdriness; he had sacrificed himself for the public good, and the community shared in the joke of it.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith