tawdriness

Example Sentences

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In reality, it’s a bit of a down-the-middle thriller that flirts with tawdriness as it presents the inner workings of the highly secretive Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020

So perhaps this tawdriness is what we desire somewhere in the back of our mind?

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

An unshaded electric-light bulb filled the room with crude light, stripping its poverty and tawdriness naked to the eye its bamboo furniture, its imitation parquet, and the cheap distemper of its walls.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval