tawdriness
Example Sentences
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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
But for a crowd that was perhaps burning out on the after-hours warehouse scene, it was a well-timed mix of reliably tasteful music and lived-in tawdriness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2018
There is also, inevitably, a certain element of tawdriness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2017
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
