Tawdry in a sentence as an adjective

But outside of that context, to me, it feels, again, cheap and tawdry, and just kind of stale.

But to my sensibilities, it feels tawdry and cheap, and thus insincere.

Indeed the commercialisation of the web is tawdry.

For various tawdry reasons most 401k plans have terrible investment options.

The dishonest and evil people exploit them or justify a tawdry and easy elitism through this situation.

You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers"

The BBC piece is one of those tawdry - hype up a new conspiracy - pieces that 'journalists' use to try and add some interest to story where everybody has the same news.

A logician would invoke Beth's theorem on unions of theories and ignore a math professor's tawdry speculation on the circumstances of Turing's death.

"Meretricious: 1. alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.

— should not suffer the petty, tawdry, bourgeois constraints of genre, media gatekeepers, critics, quality or existence.

> baccarat players have a long and tawdry history of introducing some truly\n > bizarre superstitions into gaming parlors.

Not only is it a tawdry but it gives me vertigo which is usually a rare experience on the modern web and has thus-far created a very negative experience for me.

"Everyone, it seems, is waiting for compromising sex tapes to emerge, a tawdry phenomenon with a history in Turkish politics, especially at election time.

Gently blowing on the dice at a\n > craps table is downright sensible behavior compared to some of what goes on in\n > baccarat pits on a daily basis,\n\n\nCan anyone provide some examples of these tawdry and bizarre superstitions?

However, please re-examine your stance on the House of Lords - while on paper, having an unelected body with their political power sounds like a oligarchical disaster, in practice not being beholden to tawdry party politics means they are consistently the sole voice of reason in an otherwise bonkers political climate.

Tawdry definitions

adjective

tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

adjective

cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

See also: cheapjack shoddy