tawdry

How To Use tawdry In A Sentence

• This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity The Pontiff Is In...
• Flipping unbelievable, the Queen would rob the coffers of schools and hospitals so that her tawdry hangers on and distant relatives don't have to pay their way Grr If they are grace and favour, let the residents of them pay if Her Maj ain't got the dough but bollocks to us paying it, we don't pay our taxes so chinless hooray henries and Chlamydia Camilla's can have a ball at our expense. The Independent - UK RSS Feed
• Second, a sense that writers, readers and books should dwell in a pure, fluffy space in the clouds, removed from tawdry concerns of image… or even, perhaps, human physicality.
• What a tawdry little tale this is. Times, Sunday Times
• But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.
• This has been a tawdry affair, and the only person to emerge with his dignity intact is Hester. Times, Sunday Times
• A golden torque encircled his neck, tawdry-jeweled rings his fingers, a spiral of herpetoid skin the left arm. The Day of Their Return
• One Glasgow night of aberrationWhen kilted goblins with libationToasted Burns in tawdry exultationAll pished as fartsNot even armed with banjo could theyHit a coo's arse Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna
• However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock.
• Pain, grief, imprisonment and even tawdry death have been just a few of the unsought remunerations accorded to them.