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tawdry

adjective

1 tawdry

Tastelessly showy:
— Tawdry ornaments.

synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky ... show more.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Polish: tromtadracki, szpanerski, efekciarski, kabotyƄski

2 tawdry

Made of inferior workmanship and materials.

synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy.


Moby thesaurus: blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheapjack, chintzy, colorful, common, crude, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, loud ... show more.

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