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tawdry
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  • Facing Nero, I remembered all the tawdry details of his rule—the extravagance and cruelty that had made him so embarrassing to me, his forefather.†  (source)
  • Billy left his room, went down the slow elevator, walked over to Times Square, looked into the window of a tawdry bookstore.†  (source)
  • It seems clear that this whole tawdry enterprise is nothing but a promotional come-on for Mr. Odom's nightclub.†  (source)
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  • Whether you found it dashing or tawdry, at least it had been a romance, complete with intrigue and scandal and a wrenching separation.†  (source)
  • Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.†  (source)
  • Groomed with exquisite tawdriness, she'd fashioned for Bev the image of a modern woman living the ideal career life.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • There was nothing left for her in France but the ignominy of a tawdry grave.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Dear Lord ...The smee was still telling tawdry tales when Max reined their horse to a halt.†  (source)
  • Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.†  (source)
  • But compared to the sharp, sour reek of the men, even the tawdry scent was transporting.†  (source)
  • Now the lights and the rides and the cotton-candy stand looked so garish, so tawdry.†  (source)
  • Beside such treasures the gloves looked cheap and tawdry.†  (source)
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