tawdriness
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“The kind of slight unease that I think it provokes, that sense of tawdriness, I think that they really fit the book, ultimately,” Szalay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
Jerry Springer, whose chaotic talk show set a new standard for tawdriness on American TV, died yesterday.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
So perhaps this tawdriness is what we desire somewhere in the back of our mind?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2018
“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
What a contrast to the tawdriness of the steamers we had been accustomed to, to see every thing about us made beautiful by exquisite neatness, done chiefly, too, for their own eyes!
From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Caroline C. Leighton
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