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The meaning of TAWDRY is cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality. ... was telling anyone who’d listen that Trump was the only person fit to lead ... the Definition ...
TAWDRY definition: 1. looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality: 2. showing or having low…. Learn more.
TAWDRY meaning: 1. looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality: 2. showing or having low…. Learn more.
Synonyms for TAWDRY: terrible, poor, miserable, rotten, cheap, meretricious, common, gaudy; Antonyms of TAWDRY: elegant, handsome, tasteful, polished, refined ...
tawdry: 1 adj tastelessly showy “ tawdry ornaments” Synonyms: brassy , cheap , flash , flashy , garish , gaudy , gimcrack , loud , meretricious , tacky , tatty , trashy tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste adj cheap and shoddy Synonyms: cheapjack , shoddy inferior of low or inferior quality
a tawdry affair Word Origin early 17th cent.: short for tawdry lace , a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th cents, contraction of St Audrey's lace : Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair.
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TAWDRY definition: 1. unpleasant and immoral 2. cheap and of bad quality. Learn more.
