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

Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been a pleasure to the eyes even of those who did not know why they were pleased.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

Both were young; both were tawdrily dressed, with many strings of beads and rings on neck and fingers.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West

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

It made the surrounding array of pretty silver cups and engraved medals look tawdrily insignificant.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson