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Meaning of tawdry

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tawdry
      adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
             "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
             "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
             [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish},
             {gaudy}, {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky},
             {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]
      2: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the
         low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn: {cheapjack},
         {shoddy}, {tawdry}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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