tawdriness
Example Sentences
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In reality, it’s a bit of a down-the-middle thriller that flirts with tawdriness as it presents the inner workings of the highly secretive Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Jerry Springer, whose chaotic talk show set a new standard for tawdriness on American TV, died yesterday.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
We’ve been conditioned to expect something specific from memoirs by children of notable people: escape narratives that reveal the tawdriness or tyranny behind the parent’s publicly charming facade and chart the child’s quest for individuality.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
The media coverage of this case was, and remains, almost unparalleled in its tawdriness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2016
An unshaded electric-light bulb filled the room with crude light, stripping its poverty and tawdriness naked to the eye its bamboo furniture, its imitation parquet, and the cheap distemper of its walls.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
