单词	tawdry
释义	tawdrytaw‧dry /ˈtɔːdri $ ˈtɒː-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINtawdry Origin: 1600-1700 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 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES tawdry jewelry a tawdry scandal EXAMPLES FROM THE 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. 1cheaply and badly made:  tawdry jewellery and fake furs2showing low moral standards:  a tawdry tale of lies and deception—tawdriness noun [uncountable]
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