All 4 Uses of
tawdry
in
Main Street
- She awoke at ebb-time, at three of the morning, woke sharply and fully; and sharply and coldly as her father pronouncing sentence on a cruel swindler she gave judgment: "A pitiful and tawdry love-affair.†
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- She pitied herself that her romance should be pitiful; she sighed that in this colorless hour, to this austere self, it should seem tawdry.†
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- Then, in a very great desire of rebellion and unleashing of all her hatreds, "The pettier and more tawdry it is, the more blame to Main Street.†
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- Tawdry!†
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Definition:
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(tawdry) tastelessly showy;
or: cheap and shoddy