tawdriness

Example Sentences

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“The kind of slight unease that I think it provokes, that sense of tawdriness, I think that they really fit the book, ultimately,” Szalay said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

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

Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020

When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016

"Not a very reputable acquaintance, I should imagine," said the great manufacturer, looking thoughtfully down at the bedraggled tawdriness of the dead man's attire.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon