tawdrily

Example Sentences

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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

Perhaps they were more like country milliners, and pupil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses.

From The Glimpses of the Moon by Wharton, Edith

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

To crown all, we met, as we entered, a huge, blowzy, tawdrily dressed woman, of most forbidding appearance, who, I was led to understand, was the mistress of the house.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay