Sample Sentences fortawdry (auto-selected)
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The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.† (source)
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Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.† (source)
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There is something hilariously tawdry about the entire scene.† (source)
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Billy left his room, went down the slow elevator, walked over to Times Square, looked into the window of a tawdry bookstore.† (source)
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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)
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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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if he was dead, how cold he feel so unbearably, didn't pain cease with death, didn't it go...The night wet and windy, two children dressed as pumpkins waddling across the square and the shop windows covered in paper spiders, all the tawdry Muggle trappings of a world in which they did not believe...And he was gliding along, that sense of purpose and power and rightness in him that he always knew on these occasions...Not anger...that was for weaker souls than he...but triumph, yes...He had waited for this, he had hoped for it..."Nice costume, mister!"† (source)
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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In his last breaths, was he trying to tell me about the death of his adopted family—or admit to some tawdry, decades-long affair?† (source)
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The sunlight crowd were mostly tourists or the harried urban professionals who didn't much care if the decor looked tawdry and the service was surly.† (source)
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It had that woebegone, forsaken, tawdry appearance, which reminds one so much of a ball-dress, the morning after.† (source)
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Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.† (source)
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Dear Lord ...The smee was still telling tawdry tales when Max reined their horse to a halt.† (source)
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