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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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