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

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

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

The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various