How to Use tawdry in a Sentence

tawdry

adjective
Definition of tawdrynext
Synonyms for tawdrynext
  • In the end, the case isn’t about the tawdry details of the hush money payments.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There are way more tawdry details that none of us should have to know.
    — Author: Shannyn Moore | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The Porter scandal was, by turns, monstrous and tawdry.
    — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 27 Mar. 2018
  • So instead of a grand send-off, Mugabe had a tawdry one.
    — The Economist, 15 Sep. 2019
  • And a new movie on the whole tawdry business is underway.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • As for Carroll’s tawdry Trump tale, there is slightly more to it, on both sides.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
  • And what about the people who see betting on sports as immoral or tawdry?
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • There's the tawdry true crime series that has no choice but to accept the things that Cameron claims at face value.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • In the sin city of the 1990s, casinos had become marked by tawdry décor and all-you-can-eat buffets.
    — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Even eggs worth three or four thousand dollars looked tawdry and cheap.
    — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2018
  • There’s no shame in it—only the risk of having a tawdry rendezvous with better health.
    — Sheryl Huggins Salomon, The Root, 5 Aug. 2017
  • But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes and ball gowns.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns.
    — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • But the tawdry tale suggests that there was plenty of blame to go around, including the Sheriffs Dept.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
  • But this tawdry tweet points to a much more dangerous consequence of Trump's war on much of the media.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 2 July 2017
  • The Crown handles what could have been—and probably still is—a tawdry moment with humor and care.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • What boomers such as Sharpton have done is to discredit the sort of tawdry horse-trading that made that system work.
    — Park MacDougald, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • If that rumor proves true, the rally would be a tawdry end to Trump’s presidency.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Lending support to Donald Trump in a tawdry quest for dollars.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2018
  • My dotty building was home not only to the tawdry and the drunken, but also the homicidal.
    — Michael Milton, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • That show is a wretched, tawdry mess that never should have made it onto HBO’s schedule.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • In the tawdry heart of Hollywood is the compelling Museum of Failure.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • For the past several weeks, sports commentators had turned themselves loose to shed light on the tawdry roots of this World Cup.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The new ones look tawdry and a little swagless, like replica jerseys.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The hegemon exhibits power by rising above such tawdry tricks.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • So maybe Satanic Panic is doing the Lord's work by holding the whole tawdry mess up for well-deserved ridicule.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2019
  • As a result, these works of criticism are often tawdry or just plain boring.
    — SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • One of her most tawdry jokes referenced her post-college career.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But the Trump team’s efforts to silence Daniels have only added fuel to the tawdry controversy.
    — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Now the tawdry allegations threaten to upend the case, and scrutiny of Wade's role in the case is only mounting.
    — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024

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