tawdry (redirected from tawdrier)

taw·dry  (tôdr)

adj. taw·dri·er, taw·dri·est

1. Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. See Synonyms at gaudy¹.

2. Shameful or indecent: tawdry secrets.

n.

Cheap and gaudy finery.

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[From tawdry lace, lace necktie, alteration of Saint Audrey's lace (sold at the annual Saint Audrey's fair, Ely, England), after Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda), queen of Northumbria, who died in 679 of a throat tumor, supposedly because she delighted in fancy necklaces as a young woman.]

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tawdri·ly adv.

tawdri·ness n.

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tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ]

adj -drier, -driest

cheap, showy, and of poor quality tawdry jewellery

[C16 tawdry lace, shortened and altered from Seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey (Etheldrida), 7th-century queen of Northumbria and patron saint of Ely, Cambridgeshire]

tawdrily  adv

tawdriness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	tawdry - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy, brassy, cheap tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
	2.	tawdry - cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist cheapjack, shoddy inferior - of low or inferior quality

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tawdry

adjective vulgar, cheap, tacky (informal), flashy, tasteless, plastic (slang), glittering, naff (Brit. slang), gaudy, tatty, showy, tinsel, raffish, gimcrack, meretricious, tinselly, cheap-jack (informal) tawdry jewellery
elegant, stylish, tasteful, simple, plain, refined, graceful, well-tailored, unostentatious, unflashy

Translations

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] ADJ (tawdrier (compar) (tawdriest (superl))) [jewellery] → de oropel, de relumbrón; [clothes] → chabacano, hortera(Sp) ; [decor] → charro, hortera(Sp) ; [place, town] → chabacano; (= sordid) [affair, business] → sórdido

tawdry [ˈtɔːdri] adj

(= sordid) [reality, tale, affair] → sordide

(= tacky) [jewellery, clothes] → toc >

tawdry

adj (+er) clothes → billig und geschmacklos; hat, splendour, decorations → ordinär; person, appearance → aufgedonnert; story, idea → geschmacklos; all this cheap and tawdry jewellery → all dieser billige Flitterkram

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → pacchiano/a

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tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → pacchiano/a