tawdry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++taw·dry /ˈtɔːdri $ ˈtɒː-/ adjective 1 CHEAPcheaply and badly made 廉价的，不值钱的；制作粗糙的 tawdry jewellery and fake furs 廉价珠宝和人造裘皮2 showing low moral standards 粗俗的；下流的；卑鄙的；卑污的 a tawdry tale of lies and deception 充满谎言和欺骗的无耻鬼话 —tawdriness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
tawdry• His apartment was a tasteful disappointment, clashing with his tawdry appearance.• The place was all tawdry bars, dance-halls and flop-houses that were also houses of assignation.• Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.• A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.• tawdry jewelry• It seems a tawdry nightmare, looking back.• The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.• a tawdry scandal• Everywhere you looked in this hour-long special, there was some tawdry scene being enacted.Origin tawdry (1600-1700) tawdry lace “necklace” ((16-18 centuries)), from St. Audrey's lace, from St. Audrey 7th-century queen of Northumbria, England; because it was originally sold at fairs in honor of St. Audreytaw·dry adjectiveChineseSyllable
made badly and cheaply Corpus
tawdry
taw‧dry /ˈtɔːdri $ ˈtɒː-/
adjective
tawdry jewellery and fake furs
2. showing low moral standards:
a tawdry tale of lies and deception
—tawdriness noun [uncountable]
taw‧dry /ˈtɔːdri $ ˈtɒː-/
adjective Date: 1600-1700
Origin: tawdry lace 'necklace' (16-18 centuries), from St. Audrey's lace, from St. Audrey 7th-century queen of Northumbria, England; because it was originally sold at fairs in honor of St. Audrey
1. cheaply and badly made:Origin: tawdry lace 'necklace' (16-18 centuries), from St. Audrey's lace, from St. Audrey 7th-century queen of Northumbria, England; because it was originally sold at fairs in honor of St. Audrey
2. showing low moral standards:
—tawdriness noun [uncountable]