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The increased eyes on these cases have led average people to become armchair detectives, overrunning comments sections with tawdry speculation.

THE BIZARRE AND UNSETTLING RISE OF TRUE-CRIME MAKEUP VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE AND TIKTOKHANNAH JACKSONOCTOBER 18, 2021THE DAILY BEAST

The site of a massacre ordered by British officers more than a century ago, the somber memorial has recently been given what several observers have called a tawdry makeover.

INDIA IS TURNING THE SITE OF A COLONIAL MASSACRE INTO AN INSTAGRAM-FRIENDLY ATTRACTIONMANAVI KAPURSEPTEMBER 11, 2021QUARTZ

It has been reclaimed by some as a marker of empowerment and by others as a critical satire of male bravado and tawdry, art-world branding.

ARTIST LYNDA BENGLIS BECAME CONTROVERSIAL IN AN INSTANT, BUT HER CAREER HAS THRIVED FOR DECADESPHILIP KENNICOTTAUGUST 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST

We hear Ruby, “the owner of tawdry nightclubs and strip clubs,” telling a reporter in a choked voice, “I love this city because there is so much culture here.”

THE TRIAL OF THE MAN WHO KILLED THE MAN WHO KILLED KENNEDYTHURSTON CLARKEJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

In the centre of this table stood a tawdry Japanese vase, worth, perhaps, five or six shillings.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

Even the children were not whimpering, the tawdry women were not hysterical, not a parrot raised his voice nor a dog whined.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

The fire was the really great adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.

WAYSIDE COURTSHIPSHAMLIN GARLAND

Singularly enough, this modest lady gave the origin to the word “tawdry,” so Thornbury declares.

MILTON'S ENGLANDLUCIA AMES MEAD

Can't you see what a miserable sham the thing is—a cheap, tawdry imitation of the splendid classic type?

THE TINTED VENUSF. ANSTEY

There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.

SPEECHES AND LETTERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1832-1865ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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