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

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

So perhaps this tawdriness is what we desire somewhere in the back of our mind?

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

They add a peculiar tawdriness; but the chapel itself, with its dull blue paint, and the strange, bath-like sarcophagus below Rysbrach's statues of the first Lord King and his lady, is the main offence.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh