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
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
“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
There is also, inevitably, a certain element of tawdriness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2017
To lack of education he attributed the tawdriness and vulgarity of popular taste.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
