tawdry

A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles, which had seen as hard service, and boasted as honorable a transmission.

The tale of Miss Thompson going from schoolgirl to call girl is particularly tawdry, the Daily Mail revealed.

The two sisters stooped , broad , lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons .

There was Parking room for motors on each side of the road, and there were saloons, tawdry and bright.

But two tawdry facts remained: Mr Musharraf had never won an unrigged election; and had long been unpopular.

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You made me feel like a king, dear. You made all others who came before seem cheap, tawdry, and shallow.

And trousers that cried with a loud voice. "Come look at me, and see how cheap and tawdry I am; my master, what a dirty buck! "

a flash car; a flashy ring; garish colors; a gaudy costume; loud sport shirts; a meretricious yet stylish book; tawdry ornaments.

The rare wine world is still recovering from the tawdry affair.

Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.

The spirit of romance is gross and tawdry in vulgar minds, but dainty and refined in the more cultivated.

Another reason for the attention to tax cuts at the top is the tawdry role of big money in political campaigns.

New York Republican Chris Lee resigned after the photo and some tawdry details at the Internet.

Cheaply or showily vulgar In appearance or nature; tawdry.

What seemed sweet and sad immediately turns shabby and tawdry.

Yahoo! 's site became a tawdry strip mall, with big, flashing advertisements next to users' e-mail inboxes.

They talked to each other and shared their oranges with the tawdry girls who sat beside them.

The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.

yeah , mama ! you gonna be my tawdry little woman.

A once tawdry media product has become fashionable.

That dress is just tawdry.

Alas, all these shops peddling tawdry knick-knacks will be back with us again.

I'm sure it Iooks Iike some kind of sIeazy, tawdry.

If you can't do or say something to draw a crowd (no, not something tawdry) then simply stand in the center of the room.

On nearly every page, some character is shown to be pitiful or tawdry: Vince Foster, the White House lawyer who committed suicide;

It began life producing batteries in the tawdry boomtown of Shenzhen across the Hong Kong border , then branched out into electric cars .

well , i ' m sure it looks like some kind of sleazy , tawdry