tawdriness
Example Sentences
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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
We’ve been conditioned to expect something specific from memoirs by children of notable people: escape narratives that reveal the tawdriness or tyranny behind the parent’s publicly charming facade and chart the child’s quest for individuality.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
But its enthusiastic tawdriness is still captivating, as attested by the reboot’s decent ratings.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 14, 2019
Then for the first time he realised something of the tawdriness of this life of pleasure, which seemed ever calling to him through the open windows of his lonely room.
From The Survivor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
