tawdrily

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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 is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael

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