tawdry

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taw‧dry/ˈtɔːdri $ ˈtɒː-/ adjective
[date : 1600-1700; Origin : tawdry lace 'necklace' (16-18 centuries), from St. Audrey's lace, from St. Audrey 7th-century queen of Northumbria, England; because it was originally sold at fairs in honor of St. Audrey]
1. cheaply and badly made:
　 ▪ tawdry jewellery and fake furs

2. showing low moral standards:
　 ▪ a tawdry tale of lies and deception

—tawdriness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ tawdry jewelry
▪ a tawdry scandal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
▪ Everywhere you looked in this hour-long special, there was some tawdry scene being enacted.
▪ His apartment was a tasteful disappointment, clashing with his tawdry appearance.
▪ It seems a tawdry nightmare, looking back.
▪ The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
▪ The place was all tawdry bars, dance-halls and flop-houses that were also houses of assignation.
▪ Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  cheapjack, shoddy