tawdriness
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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
His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2018
Gounod's music struggles nobly with the tawdriness and sentimentality of the libretto.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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