单词 | tawdry |
释义 | tawdry (tɔːdri ) Word forms: tawdrier , tawdriest 1. adjective If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. ...tawdry jewellery. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. ...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality. ...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining. Collocations: tawdry affair This has been a tawdry affair, and the only person to emerge with his dignity intact is Hester. Times, Sunday Times (2012) You and I weren't just a couple of unhappy married people engaged in a tawdry affair. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This whole tawdry affair highlights the corrupting power of a rotten culture. Times, Sunday Times (2014) |
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