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

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

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

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

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

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