tawdry

Speech parts

1. tawdry - Noun

2. tawdry - Adjective

4. tawdry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

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.

A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gaudy cheap flash flashy garish tacky trashy common loud vulgar showy ostentatious tasteless shoddy shabby
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Antonyms

grand swank natty class swish new
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Derivatives

tawdries tawdrier tawdriest

Examples

a flash car Source: Internet

a flashy ring Source: Internet

garish colors Source: Internet

a gaudy costume Source: Internet

loud sport shirts Source: Internet

a meretricious yet stylish book Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

tawdriest tawdrily tawdriness tawdry lace tawe Tawe-Uchaf