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
Against this enclave’s polished stone walls and bannisters, Lee looks every ragged inch of the tawdry menace the politicians and businessmen he squares off against expect him to be.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025
He called that meeting "the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy".
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025
The tawdry details will produce plenty of tabloid drama — but not the kind Trump reveled in when he was a young, publicity-hungry mogul.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
People felt tawdry in the Justice Room when the old soldier had left it, and many eyed the red whips sideways, with a secret dread.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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