tawdriness

Example Sentences

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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

His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018

“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward