tawdriness

Example Sentences

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Jerry Springer, whose chaotic talk show set a new standard for tawdriness on American TV, died yesterday.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

But for a crowd that was perhaps burning out on the after-hours warehouse scene, it was a well-timed mix of reliably tasteful music and lived-in tawdriness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2018

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

There is also, inevitably, a certain element of tawdriness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2017

As great an impossibility as that vulgarity and tawdriness should not obtrude their ugly heads here and there from under Branwell's finest phrases.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)