All 5 Uses of
tawdry
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding cake.†
Chpt 4 *
- "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.†
Chpt 5
- They talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their oranges with the tawdry girls who sat beside them.†
Chpt 7
- But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.†
Chpt 8
- In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily-painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(tawdry) tastelessly showy;
or: cheap and shoddy