tawdry
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The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
When the New Deal put a cop on the Wall Street beat, Dillon cleaned up his act and lived long enough to outlast the memory of his tawdry methods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He called that meeting "the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy".
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025
Instead of a fixation on the tawdry side of life, you see works that explore the things that bind all people together: family, love, politics, complex emotions and sensual memories.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024
In his last breaths, was he trying to tell me about the death of his adopted family—or admit to some tawdry, decades-long affair?
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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