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The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

In turn, some of the late Thatcher period's entrepreneurial energy would define the moment that was rather tawdrily labelled Cool Britannia.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013

It isn't only that every day changed one's general outlook, but also that a boy fluctuates between phases of quite adult understanding and phases of tawdrily magnificent puerility.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini




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