tawdry (redirected from tawdriest)

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

Adjective

[-drier, -driest] cheap, showy, and of poor quality: tawdry Christmas decorations [Middle English seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey]

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) << OPPOSITE stylish

Translations

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj → de mal gusto

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj → (d'un mauvais goût) criard

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj → billig

tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ] adj → pacchiano/a