They took their tawdry secrets to their graves. From LearnThat.org.
This president and his millionaire bunkmates are simply playing a more grand and tawdry version of the same access game. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping It In The Bedroom] Reference
"" His administration has been disappointing and deficient and sometimes simply tawdry, '' the Post wrote -- supporting him. From Wordnik.com. [The Running Is Done] Reference
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, a probe that is reinforcing the state's long-held reputation for rank corruption and tawdry politics. From Wordnik.com. [Corruption in the Land of Lincoln] Reference
This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Pontiff Is In...] Reference
The word tawdry has appeared in 61 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 12 in "On the Bow'ry," by Dan. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat. From Wordnik.com. [Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
Here is a senator who pled guilty to a misdemeanor in what can best be described as tawdry circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2007] Reference
Much like Foleygate, hearing this kind of tawdry happening always makes my day. From Wordnik.com. [Another one bites the dust.] Reference
It's bound to be kind of tawdry and fascinating in the way that film noir is fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference
Note that this is all grounded in a kind of tawdry knock-off of the Green Lantern Theory. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Is John Hood a Robot?] Reference
This is why they feel compelled to trawl downmarket like some kind of tawdry Survivor Broadsheet. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Return of the Heathers] Reference
Sean--Does the image of your mother bent over a couch with your father going at her doggy style seem less "tawdry" to you?. From Wordnik.com. [Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him.] Reference
You throw phrases like "tawdry" and "humiliation", and insinuate that she is so devastated by Bill she can't handle being President. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary] Reference
Anna Nicole will not be "tawdry", a brochure uses inflammatory red letters to warn of. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
In The Queen's Sister, which was described as "tawdry" in one review, the channel set out to show Princess Margaret as a "wild child". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
History of Philadelphia, "calls it" tawdry, "to which I fear I must demur. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
The tawdry parable of Mark Foley is only one reason. From Wordnik.com. [For the Faithful, A Trying Time] Reference
How did we get to such a tawdry moment in presidential history?. From Wordnik.com. [The Paula Problem] Reference
Yet tawdry as the spectacle became, it may have helped clear the air. From Wordnik.com. ['She Didn't Give A Damn'] Reference
Still, the resignation ramifications go beyond tawdry political theater. From Wordnik.com. [The Rising Dropout Rate] Reference
But her death last week of unexplained causes seemed more tawdry than sad. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Nicole's Tabloid Odyssey] Reference
His dad viewed campaigning as tawdry business, almost unworthy of a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Different From Dad] Reference
But that didn't make them any more comfortable chasing after this tawdry story. From Wordnik.com. [The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age] Reference
Our presidential crises have become increasingly tawdry and trivial as time goes on. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Behavior] Reference
The film industry turns out both masterpieces and tawdry B movies in astonishing profusion. From Wordnik.com. [A New Tiger] Reference
Bill Clinton tarnished eight years of peace and prosperity with his tawdry exit from office. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Beltway's Winners And Losers] Reference
Unpleasant as it is, this tawdry tableau now has a permanent place on the American landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Cycle Of Sensationalism] Reference
Now, that's a tawdry repudiation of everything we were told the president was going to be like. From Wordnik.com. [Gingrich: It’s Not About The Base] Reference
The tales of these Chechen women are as much about tawdry victimization as battlefield heroics. From Wordnik.com. [Women of Al Qaeda] Reference
None of Powell's close friends can see him slugging it out in an extended, tawdry primary season. From Wordnik.com. [Can Colin Powell Save America?] Reference
Of course she was, but for all its tawdry detail, or maybe because of it, the book may not be far off the mark. From Wordnik.com. [Live, From Nielson Heaven] Reference
It may join the modern pantheon of tawdry courtroom spectacles -- along with John Got, O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers. From Wordnik.com. ['I'm So Glad To Be Here In Arkansas'] Reference
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