All 3 Uses of
tawdry
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding-cake.†
Chpt 3 *
- They talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their oranges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them.†
Chpt 5
- But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(tawdry) tastelessly showy;
or: cheap and shoddy