tawdriness
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His story is a little rushed but we get the idea that Tim’s not a jerk, just an idealist who can’t handle the tawdriness of the 21st century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
The media coverage of this case was, and remains, almost unparalleled in its tawdriness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2016
But though these trees of the Pavilion give a grateful shelter from the glare of the sun and the roughness of the wind, they hide little of the tawdriness of that architectural enormity.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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