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tastelessly showy;
or: cheap and shoddy

People felt tawdry in the Justice Room when the old soldier had left it, and many eyed the red whips sideways, with a secret dread.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

Billy left his room, went down the slow elevator, walked over to Times Square, looked into the window of a tawdry bookstore.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Without the dark, without the bright glow of colored lights, the carnival looked too much like what it was...a little weary, more than a little tawdry.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
If she had so little moral character that she could ignore an upright man like me for the tawdry glitter of New York, she wasn't worth thinking about.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Now the lights and the rides and the cotton-candy stand looked so garish, so tawdry.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
She pitied herself that her romance should be pitiful; she sighed that in this colorless hour, to this austere self, it should seem tawdry.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
"Your tawdry effort in The Daily World," he says scathingly.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
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.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
He remembered with bitterness that scene of tawdry tribute.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Whether you found it dashing or tawdry, at least it had been a romance, complete with intrigue and scandal and a wrenching separation.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
White Castle, the nation's first hamburger chain, worked hard in the 1920s to dispel the hamburger's tawdry image.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Her new cerise dress has been a failure, and makes her look tawdry and wan.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives, their fear of feeling anything deeply, their sex problems, their husbands.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
I have no desire to hear the tawdry details of what went on last night, or hear how awful I was for not accepting Dawson in the first place.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
A part of Dick's mind was made up of the tawdry souvenirs of his boyhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Pick the courses shrewdly and work quickly and the most tawdry academic record could be renovated in a single summer.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Come, you promised me a tawdry lace, and a pair of sweet gloves.
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale
It is redolent of the tawdry decadence of a far-flung but key imperial frontier.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
She was pale and pock-faced and dressed in the tawdry, over-shiny garb of a woman who had obviously once been in the trade.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

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