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.
She's a narcissist, striving to impress her tawdry wannabe high-brow friends.
It was so tawdry and cheap looking, I couldn't resist.
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
Many in the country, affronted by the tawdry detail, will feel football has moved backwards. Times, Sunday Times
Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause.
Gongs and brickbats: some parts of the park are a strange mix of super-high-tech rides and rather tawdry fairground stalls, complete with hustling barkers.
This may evade privacy restrictions but is cheap and tawdry at best.
Here is a senator who pled guilty to a misdemeanor in what can best be described as tawdry circumstances. CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2007
This has been a tawdry affair, and the only person to emerge with his dignity intact is Hester. Times, Sunday Times
The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
The palace of the maharaja is a noble building, but very ornate, and is furnished with the most tawdry and inappropriate French hangings and furniture. Modern India
This has been a tawdry affair, and the only person to emerge with his dignity intact is Hester. Times, Sunday Times
The stripper only stayed for the first three tracks (over the course of which she took what little she was wearing off) but it set a tawdry, cheap tone for the rest of the gig.
The trader wore his great wig, his ancient steinkirk of tawdry lace, his high boots of Spanish leather, cracked and stained. Audrey
As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
More important, I appreciate your decision not to include the tawdry things, which tend toward cheapening and denigrating what should be viewed as a positive and healthy lifestyle.
It is now a tawdry tourist symbol, an elaborately frosted wedding-cake up which climbing companies yo-yo hundreds of clients.
You and I weren't just a couple of unhappy married people engaged in a tawdry affair. Times, Sunday Times
There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for?
So the next best strategy is to convince the electorate that all the other candidates are just as tawdry and dishonest.
We're not going to have the Government use shoddy, tawdry little tricks to drum up the notion of fear and then fail on competence.
Close up, they look cheap and tawdry. Times, Sunday Times
Liberals read more broadly and deeply, so their intellect infuses the entire catalog, or even all of Western literature, not just a few tawdry best sellers.
Women seeking counsel on how to get the most out of their husbands can dip into a river of self-help books, tawdry daytime TV shows and features that dramatize the female author's plight in women's magazines.
What was a graceful and vibrant part of the city has become tired and tawdry as the ravages of time and inattention over the last 15 years have taken their toll.
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Obviously some tipsters do better than others, otherwise they would go out of business - you would be surprised how many do, only to surface under another name and charge even more for their tawdry nonsense.
Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal.
If we can somehow do that, then we will have the diverse regional parts of this big blue marble as a permanent stage on which to play out our mostly tawdry - but occasionally splendid - human dramas.
Shares would drop, pop stars would be seen packing their tawdry belongings into Lear jets and jetting off to some marble mansion in the Costa Del Sol to await the return of the Tories and people would start buying gold to hide under their beds.
Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom… What a cheap and tawdry political trick.
They were once looked down upon as the tawdry poor relations of the fashion industry.
Instead they twisted their little lace hankies like a couple of rich old biddies and sniffed and whimpered about how they don't agree with such tawdry sentiment.
She encounters many especially distressing illustrations of the effects of "pauperization," connecting the decline in California's system of public education and the rise in the California prison system to the bleak ignorance and moral defectiveness exemplified by a tawdry but emblematic incident in Lakewood, California, former site of defense-industry prosperity, and more recently of the "Spur Posse. False Promises
Others think this can only be a good thing, saying the outdoor advertising industry has long been seen as tawdry and tasteless.
White Fang (1906) and Before Adam (1907) together constitute the highwater mark of London's blatant use of evolutionary concepts in two tawdry pieces of naturalistic fiction. Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street.
He blamed ABC News for broadcasting an interview that he called "tawdry and inappropriate," but he did not directly respond to the account from his former wife, to whom he was married for 18 years. NYT > Home Page
Nor, be it here observed, was Mr. Losely one of those beauish brigands who wear tawdry scarves over soiled linen, and paste rings upon unwashed digitals. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04
The house was nothing special, a tawdry semi-detached in a sprawling estate, with a broken front fence and an overgrown lawn.
Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat. Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade
Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
The silky relationship between art and fashion may seem charming but is often a tawdry, corrupting, even whorish affair.
With a whole new series of wallpapers and floors in leopard-print and fake gold, you can decorate your brothel to give it that gaudy, tawdry look that will have the punters coming back for more.
Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house.
Her successes are dismissed as tawdry, her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated.
The Candleglow insignia in the corner doesn't help matters, but simply emphasizes how cheap and tawdry the whole thing looks.
Fudoh is based on a manga, a Japanese comic series, and a tawdry, pulpy one at that.
Like a naturopath taking a strand of hair and doing a complete cellular, system breakdown you have taken this tawdry, endless, episode and have done a fair and complete diagnosis.
Not only did he disapprove of gay marriage, but refused to even give relationship status to gay and lesbian couples, preferring the tawdry term ‘liaisons’.
He sightsaw and forgot about John for awhile as he watched the tawdry Seacoast Strip between Portland and Kittery slide by. Blaze
Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America.
To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow.
These tired statements are in aid of the staff recommendation for a tired and tawdry idea from the '80s - that Toronto should prepare a bid to host the World Expo here in 2015.
His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out. Eric Boehlert: Gingrich Assailed by Conservative Press; Conservatives Blame "Liberal Media"
Adapted from an award-winning play, Closer examines the lives of four people who become enmeshed in a tawdry tale of adultery.
But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.
But even with all its tawdry details, the case raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants.
Now the red swaying lanterns on the low, wide bumboats come on, making some minor huckster transformation from tawdry to quaint.
To better suit the tastes of a different kind of patron, the tawdry decor has been replaced with subdued colour schemes and simple elegance. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond Mallorca's tired and tawdry resorts lies an unspoilt, unpolluted island - and if you don't believe us, visit the rural village of Costitx, whose international observatory opened in 1991.
Many thought the painting vulgar and tawdry in its intention but many more adopted it as a contemporary religious icon and so it became one of the most popular paintings in the civic collection.
Looting the tawdry possessions of the African villagers was both a reprisal and a reward.
A tall young woman came up the walk, trailing her tawdry ruffles over the fragrant alfileria. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories
This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious. The New Jerusalem
Maybe that will be the one positive thing that comes out of this tawdry show. The Sun
Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches.
He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
The woman who looks an unquestionable lady when she's with a polished-up fellow, looks a mere tawdry imitation article when she's hobbing and nobbing with a homely blade. The Woodlanders
To the left here was the last liberal leader standing, succumbing to tawdry populism to save her political skin. Times, Sunday Times
Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
Which is saying something, considering the sleazy, tawdry appearance she presented.
This has been a tawdry affair, and the only person to emerge with his dignity intact is Hester. Times, Sunday Times
Getting fit and healthy is a tawdry, tedious affair. Times, Sunday Times
Lust was the thing that caused men to risk their jobs and families for a tawdry backstreet encounter, it's the thing that costs politicians their careers.
This whole tawdry affair highlights the corrupting power of a rotten culture. Times, Sunday Times
All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism.
That fiddling, parading fellow [you know who I mean] made us wait for him two hours, and I to go to a journey I disliked! only for the sake of having a little more tawdry upon his housings; which he had hurried his sadler to put on, to make him look fine, being to escort his dear Madam Howe, and her fair daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
She crimsoned to her hair; you could see the red blood rushing and rushing up from under the peekaboo embroidery in front of the tawdry blowse, in a hurry to tell her tingling ears what cruel names he called her. The Dop Doctor
There has been much criticism of this strategy, some from me, but in a way the strategy in itself is contributing to a positive perception that the National leader is somehow above indulging in these tawdry games.
Camille is grand melodrama that rivals the theatrics of the most tawdry soap opera.
Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government.
“Peter” has a tawdry hall, smeared with the escutcheons of all nations, where music and waltzing whirl through the dense air, hour after hour; and what is at least of equal consequence to him, Peter holds a tavern in the next room, where spirits, beer, or coffee are equally at the command of the drouthy or the luxuriant. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
They are cheap, tawdry politicians not worthy of anything other than contempt.
The second tale is more tawdry. The Times Literary Supplement
Surely not; I naturally assumed – in keeping with the tawdry corporate sponsorship covin – that it was on consignment from ACoC. Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat
Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
It is now a tawdry tourist symbol, an elaborately frosted wedding-cake up which climbing companies yo-yo hundreds of clients.
Neither of us want something as tawdry as an affair. Times, Sunday Times
The impression is that we are witnesses after the fact and once again we naturally construct a hypothetical narrative, its tragedy implicit in the necessarily tawdry ingredients.
Tabloid newspapers have always printed tawdry tales of public figures' peccadilloes, but it hasn't dominated discussion in the same way.
They stretched from corner to corner of the smoke-grimed ceiling, they fell in clumsy festoons from the cheap gasalier, they framed the fly-blown mirror and the tawdry pictures; and I know tired hands and eyes worked many hours to fashion and fix those foolish chains, saying, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
It was a tawdry and unfitting end, for both sides.
Away from its tawdry sideshows we wander, along the boardwalk that fringes the littered beach and the grey Atlantic that no one swims in.
That, I told myself, is only the stuff you read about in cheap, tawdry romance novels (which I happen to write).
The silky relationship between art and fashion may seem charming but is often a tawdry, corrupting, even whorish affair.
There was a moment's uproar when, wishing for a better view, the driver of a tawdry _ekka_ urged his half-starved pony forward. Leonie of the Jungle
On her head she had a tawdry brownish black bonnet, that had not improved from two three years 'tholing of sun and wind; a thin rag of a grey duffle mantle was thrown over her shoulders, below which was a checked shortgown of gingham stripe, and a green glazed manco petticoat. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
The word tawdry has appeared in 61 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 12 in "On the Bow'ry," by Dan NYT > Home Page
For most visitors it was shabby and tawdry, with hotel rooms designed to be so uncomfortable that you had to go downstairs and gamble.
It may be a little tawdry, but the whole of capitalist economics is based on selfishness and greed.
He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
There have been no winners in this sorry, tawdry tale. Times, Sunday Times
At one point everyone repairs to a tawdry nightclub where Marianne is discovered posing naked by the father who has disowned her.
We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides.
Amanda Platell, in the Daily Mail, wrote of the "tawdry, inexorable decline of Hugh Grant" whom she described as an "oleaginous, womanising lounge lizard". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The house was nothing special, a tawdry semi-detached in a sprawling estate, with a broken front fence and an overgrown lawn.
Did the Burberry collection look cheap and tawdry? Times, Sunday Times
The place where Wuornos was arrested - a tawdry biker joint in Florida's Daytona Beach called The Last Resort, where women's underwear hangs above the bar - draws the curious.
Dancing despite the Nazis, the tawdry chorines of ‘Cabaret’ provide a bracing alternative to ‘The Sound of Music's’ sugarcoated Trapps.
We can do so much better than this tawdry ragbag of liars, thieves and war criminals.
And rather than the fake documents pointing to a global conspiracy implicating half the statesmen of the western world, might there not be a rather more tawdry, banal explanation for the Telegraph documents?
Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals.
The other kids are mall rats and superbrats, and their behavior represents a tapestry of tawdry conduct.
Settling herself down to a review of her past as a preliminary to the consideration of her future, and hunting in it to begin with for any justification of that distressing word tawdry, the next thing she knew was that she wasn't thinking about this at all, but had somehow switched on to Mr. Wilkins. The Enchanted April
Is my net income just a "tax expenditure" that a forbearant omnipotent government allows me to foolishly waste on my own tawdry desires? Does the Government really own everything?
What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
A tawdry tale, it keeps its steady focus on Tammy, a monument to bad taste in makeup and vestimentary horrors.
Save yourself 90 minutes of tawdry agony and watch this 90-second cutdown of the movie's most ludicrous moments. ... Matt's TV Week in Review
It's just cheap and tawdry, which is what FOX is about anyways. upright left Says: Think Progress
The marriage of Britney Spears and the paparazzi is a marriage made in heaven, which is to say that it is as tawdry and upsetting as any other marriage. Shooting Britney
It would have been a simple matter to pilfer their tawdry Christmas illuminations in order to gain one-upmanship this year.
Am I wrong to refuse to capitulate to this tawdry behaviour?
To the left here was the last liberal leader standing, succumbing to tawdry populism to save her political skin. Times, Sunday Times
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
It's hard to imagine today the impact this tawdry but fascinating Italian "shockumentary" had on the world in 1962, when the bizarre customs of people in other lands seemed both exotic and horrifying to Western eyes. Joe Dante's DANTE'S INFERNO
I know that with all the ghastly images on TV and tawdry clothing worn by most that bad messages are sent to the young mind.
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
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...

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