| 词汇 | tawdry |
| 释义 | tawdry adjective uk /ˈtɔː.dri/ us /ˈtɑː.dri/ tawdryadjective (LOW QUALITY)looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality: 俗艳而不值钱的 Their ugly front garden and tacky, tawdry lights fail to reflect our village image. A lot of the city's housing consists of nondescript houses and some districts are downright tawdry. Synonym gimcrackdisapproving Compare garishdisapproving The tawdry glitter of the fairground is contrasted with the lovers in the shadows. She found dressing-gowns and slippers so tawdry. The stark lighting bathes the audience in a harsh, eye-punishing glare that makes the theater's seats and carpeting look strangely tawdry. Not of good quality am-dram appallingly atrocious atrociously awfully awfulness cheesy hacky inadequacy inadequate inadequately janky shite skanky sort tawdrily tawdriness thinness trinket wretched tawdryadjective (IMMORAL)showing or having low moral standards: She humiliated her husband with her tawdry affair. tawdry revelations about his visits to prostitutes What a cheap and tawdry political trick. The allegations about her son are the latest chapter in a tawdry tale of lust and murder. I can't understand why such a good actor got involved in such tawdry, tacky television. Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Related wordtawdriness tawdry | American Dictionarytawdry adjective us/ˈtɔ·dri/ showy, cheap, and of poor quality: tawdry jewelry/furnishings Examples of tawdrytawdry Spectacle, by contrast, relies on novelty; when it ceases to be cutting-edge, its effects quickly begin to appear faded and tawdry. Is maternal feminism merely a tawdry and retrograde diversion? The dignity of historical wax effigies gave way in this account to tawdry impersonations made of cheap materials. The magic of bourgeois life only reaches her in its most tawdry form, and without thinking she takes all the blessings that drip down from above. He felt that it was a nine days' wonder which would fizzle out, only to be replaced by an equally tawdry régime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The commission is a complete, tawdry fig leaf. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, the spectacles are uncouth, tawdry and distasteful, and make you feel disgusted and sick. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been a tawdry and ham-fisted attempt to score short-term party-political advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are entitled to draw only one set of conclusions from the whole tawdry performance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this tall talk and all this tawdry rhetoric is taken by us for what it is worth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this means shoddier, needier, more tawdry and neglected cities, towns and villages throughout the land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We opposed not only the doctrine and philosophy behind the privatisation proposals but the tawdry practices that followed them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that his amendment is mean-spirited and tawdry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I need to be convinced that we should not vote against such a tawdry measure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This has been a tawdry and wholly unnecessary exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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