cheap and tastelessly ornate in appearance
sordid or sleazy
tawdrily adv
tawdriness noun
obsolete tawdry lace, a silk ribbon worn around the neck in the 16th cent., alteration of St Audrey's Lace, named after St Audrey (Etheldreda) d.679, Queen of Northumbria. Tawdry laces and cheap imitations of them were sold at a fair commemorating St Audrey at Ely in E England