tawdry
21tawdry — adjective the tawdry rings she wore on her fingers Syn: gaudy, flashy, showy, garish, loud; tasteless, vulgar, trashy, junky, shoddy, shabby, gimcrack, chintzy, kitsch, kitsch; informal tacky, cheesy, schlocky Ant …
22tawdry — [17] Anna, Anglo Saxon king of East Anglia, had a daughter called Etheldrida, who became queen of Northumbria (she died in 679). She had an inordinate fondness in her youth for fine lace neckerchiefs, and when she was later afflicted by a fatal… …
23tawdry — adj. & n. adj. (tawdrier, tawdriest) 1 showy but worthless. 2 over ornamented, gaudy, vulgar. n. cheap or gaudy finery. Derivatives: tawdrily adv. tawdriness n. Etymology: earlier as noun: short for tawdry lace, orig. St Audrey s lace f. Audrey …
24Tawdry lace — Cheap goods sold at the annual St Audrey s fair, whose name time garbled into our tawdry . St Audrey (d. 679) was Aethelthryth (Etheldreda), foundress of a double monastery at Ely. Cf. Vernicle …
25tawdry — adjective /ˈtɔːdri/ Cheap and gaudy; showy …
26tawdry — Synonyms and related words: blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheapjack, chintzy, colorful, common, crude, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, loud, lurid, meretricious, obtrusive,… …
27tawdry — taw·dry || tÉ”Ëdrɪ adj. loud; cheap …
28tawdry — a. Showy (without elegance), gaudy, flashy, glittering, in bad taste, meretricious, tinsel …
29tawdry — adj meretricious, showy, flashy, Sl. flash; gaudy, loud, garish, Inf. tacky, screaming; cheap, brummagem, tinsel, plastic, Sl. rinky dink …
30tawdry — taw·dry …
