tawdriness

Example Sentences

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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 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

To lack of education he attributed the tawdriness and vulgarity of popular taste.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring