adjective (disapproving)
1 intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality:
tawdry jewellery
2 involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive:
a tawdry affair / scandal
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tawdry is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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