Adjective : tawdry motives. From Dictionary.com.
The person at fualt for the 'tawdriness' is Bill Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Purdum defends article slamming Bill Clinton] Reference
Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Amidst the tawdriness, I attempt to draw a real lesson. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: Political Economy Archives] Reference
The tawdriness of what happened hurts the value even more. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
George Allen attacks Jim Webb for the tawdriness in his novels. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
They entered the shop, all of its tawdriness only too apparent by day. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
Rather than examine his views, you exhibit them as an example of moral tawdriness. From Wordnik.com. [A Scientific Worldview?] Reference
In its epic tawdriness the Marshall affair was natural fodder for the tabloid media. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Death Shortage] Reference
We are in an era of high-profile tawdriness among our highest profile athletic stars. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Brandt: Lawrence Taylor Another Example of Unchanged Behavior] Reference
His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Justly known as a very intelligent person untainted by the tawdriness of modern Republicanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo] Reference
He has a nice way with the one-liner and brings the tawdriness of the period into sharp focus. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure -- a Madonna with a child. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Whatever the case -- even an attempt at tawdriness would show some kind of low-grade involvement. From Wordnik.com. [America Has Left the Building: An Open Missive of Anger and Hope] Reference
It's a perfectly normal thing to do and I guess I object to the tawdriness that I see as unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Vs Slut: it hasn't gone away] Reference
What is it about writing on the internet that makes people automatically assume a sort of tawdriness?. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Narcissistic Exploitative Zombie-Pimp Mom-Bloggers, Unite and Take Over | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Sidney understands the tawdriness of his dreams, though he can't free himself of their power over him. From Wordnik.com. [Lev Raphael: The Story Behind Tony Curtis' Sweet Smell of Success] Reference
Sir Edward Fry's Commission had none of the tinsel of big names nor the tawdriness of aristocratic apathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
My favorite Tim Gunn quote is when he told a woman that her wardrobe “reeked of desperate tawdriness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Gunn Said | clusterflock] Reference
Our little corner of Montana, west of Glacier National Park, possesses all of this same beauty and tawdriness. From Wordnik.com. [View from the Northern Border] Reference
And obviously, as (UNINTELLIGIBLE) I used to say, I thrived on tawdriness, because I stayed 30 years and loved it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003] Reference
"Marguerite" does not even believe that lasting love exists, so enveloped is she by the tawdriness of her situation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
But he harbors secrets, mostly of his own psychopathology, which begin to surface as he gets caught up in local tawdriness. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me] Reference
The contrast of this artistically developed, 100-acre palm grove with the tawdriness of the rest of Zipolite was otherworldly. From Wordnik.com. [A trip to Puerto Angel] Reference
The phrase "blond by nurture"--I am going to start using that--but it especially captures the tawdriness of belated-gumshoe noir. From Wordnik.com. [The grammar of skyscrapers and pavement] Reference
Scott's time, though many complained of the tawdriness of this decoration, which hid also from the nave the vaulting of the choir. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
In the end, Moehringer writes how he'll miss Las Vegas "I'll miss the whole seamy, seedy, icky, apocalyptic tawdriness of it all.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Sterling: Looking Clearly At Las Vegas -- A Real City, Not A Tourist Slogan] Reference
In the end, Moehringer writes how he'll miss Las Vegas "ÂI'll miss the whole seamy, seedy, icky, apocalyptic tawdriness of it all.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Sterling: Looking Clearly At Las Vegas -- A Real City, Not A Tourist Slogan] Reference
Nausea formed a hollow in the pit of her stomach at the tawdriness of dying because of an adulterous affair with another woman's husband. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Season]
The series was way better because it has to suggest all this tawdriness without actually showing it, kinda like an old Ernst Lubitsch pic. From Wordnik.com. [Eric’s Top 10 TV-to-Movie Adaptations » Scene-Stealers] Reference
Jersey Shore is a positively American creation, a celebration of tawdriness and uninhibited egotism that would be unheard of anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: Jersey Shore: The Apotheosis of Reality] Reference
There, in their hideous blandishments, the shameless sit, miserable in their tawdriness, their painted cheeks peeling in the hot sun, which they cannot shut out if they would. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
No, I still can't get past the tawdriness of the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [NY Daily News] Reference
Frankly, however, a little of the film's tawdriness goes a long way. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
I won in that moment an impression of the tawdriness of mere beauty which I have never gotten over. From Wordnik.com. [A Positive Romance 1898] Reference
The first impression which one receives upon entering the inner precincts of the kraton is of tawdriness and dilapidation. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference
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