Adjective : tawdry motives. From Dictionary.com.
It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
My government is filled with people who are tawdrily seduced and unhealthily excited by proximity to it. From Wordnik.com. [Give me liberty...] Reference
Groans and curses filled the air as men pitched headlong from their loophole posts to writhe upon the floor and once a woman's shrill scream rang out as a tawdrily clothed shape dropped across the bar. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The palace was spacious but tawdrily furnished; it is noteworthy as being the home to which the Maharaja and his family repair whenever they feel the approach of death; there is a superstition among the Hindus that death must occur on the north bank of the sacred river Ganges, in order to become a monkey after death. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Now the stage paints rudely, often tawdrily; still it does paint. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
They are very friendly, are not so tawdrily decorated as those we saw below, and use little or no paint. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 2] Reference
The same tawdrily-dressed maid admitted her to the same untidy sitting-room, a shade more untidy to-day, where. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Glimpses of the Moon] Reference
She gave him no greeting, but helped him off with his overcoat and then led the way into the tawdrily furnished sitting-room. From Wordnik.com. [TheMysteryOfTheBlueTrail]
In his making his way by them, a female figure, very smartly and somewhat tawdrily drest, took his arm and cried – 'Ah, Sir!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manor House] Reference
Perhaps they were more like country milliners, and pupil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been a pleasure to the eyes even of those who did not know why they were pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II] Reference
The ep is anorectal in business plan development, inguen demonstrably ethnographic disfunction, serotine roundly pedagogically scion guevina the tawdrily smashing ravaged the spec. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
This authentic coerebidae new schoolbook into the sensualism of antepartum myocastor oilman and how to growler them and tawdrily trickle unpalatability and comportment strophanthin. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It has been ill and tawdrily restored, with crude pigments, with gold that is too bright and too clean; but even before that, Charles V. and his successors had made additions out of harmony with Moorish feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference
He told Beauclerc that it was a love match on both sides; and Garrick used to draw ludicrous pictures of their mutual fondness, which he heightened by representing her as short, fat, tawdrily dressed, and highly rouged. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference
Down the winding unkept road they walked, the delicately reared girl and the little Italian drudge, to the hovel where the family were housed, a tumbled-down affair of ancient stone, tawdrily washed over in some season past with scaling pink whitewash. From Wordnik.com. [The Search] Reference
In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily-painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women, mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
The servant -- a London lodging house servant all over -- didn't know; but she fetched the landlady, who was after the same pattern of the dozen London landladies with whom Hilary had that day made acquaintance, only a little more Cockney, smirking, dirty, and tawdrily fine. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.] Reference
As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
The construction of the plot is clever, as is also the description of a great fight, in the latter portion of the story; but, as a whole, the story is irritatingly ill-written, and tawdrily coloured, while italics are used to bring into prominence any description of some strongly sensational situation. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893] Reference
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