Sample Sentences fortawdry (auto-selected)
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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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The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.† (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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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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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)
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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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There was nothing left for her in France but the ignominy of a tawdry grave.† (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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Dear Lord ...The smee was still telling tawdry tales when Max reined their horse to a halt.† (source)
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Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.† (source)
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But compared to the sharp, sour reek of the men, even the tawdry scent was transporting.† (source)
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Now the lights and the rides and the cotton-candy stand looked so garish, so tawdry.† (source)
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Beside such treasures the gloves looked cheap and tawdry.† (source)
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