loud; cheap
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Tawdry Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(superl.)
Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
(superl.)
Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
(n.)
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
tawdry
tax bracket n : a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income [syn: income bracket, income tax bracket]
LACE : a rustic necklace
1.cheap and gaudy in appearance
2.Tastelessly showy
eg:Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!(G.BERNANOS)
2.Tastelessly showy
eg:Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!(G.BERNANOS)
Adjective
1. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
(synonym) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy
(similar) tasteless, in poor taste(p)
2. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
(synonym) cheapjack, shoddy
(similar) inferior
