tawdry
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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
Against this enclave’s polished stone walls and bannisters, Lee looks every ragged inch of the tawdry menace the politicians and businessmen he squares off against expect him to be.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025
He called that meeting "the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy".
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025
Their tawdry example plainly demands systemic responses: enforceable recusal standards for the Supreme Court, laws regulating receipt of outside income by judges, and perhaps more.
From Slate • Jul. 15, 2024
We didn’t amount to much to start with, and due to our own tawdry efforts we had been slipping ever since.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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