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Some tawdry circus designer's idea of the East.† (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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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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These women wore stoles of fur or feathers; their dresses were tawdry colors—reds and oranges and yellows.† (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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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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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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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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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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Carter's sleight of narrative challenges our expectations and keeps us on our feet, but it also takes what could seem merely a tawdry incident and reminds us, throughits Shakespearean parallels, that there is nothing new in young men mistreating the women who love them, and that those without power in relationships have always had to be creative in finding ways to exert some control of their own.† (source)
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"We have that honor, ser." The Knight of Flowers shone so fine and pure in his white scales and silk that Jaime felt a tattered and tawdry thing by contrast.† (source)
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"Your tawdry effort in The Daily World," he says scathingly.† (source)
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There was nothing left for her in France but the ignominy of a tawdry grave.† (source)
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Pick the courses shrewdly and work quickly and the most tawdry academic record could be renovated in a single summer.† (source)
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