tawdry
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When the New Deal put a cop on the Wall Street beat, Dillon cleaned up his act and lived long enough to outlast the memory of his tawdry methods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He called that meeting "the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy".
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025
The writer Morrow Mayo seldom minced words, especially when his subject was the gaudy, tawdry city where he made his home in the 1920s and 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Their tawdry example plainly demands systemic responses: enforceable recusal standards for the Supreme Court, laws regulating receipt of outside income by judges, and perhaps more.
From Slate • Jul. 15, 2024
The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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