tawdrily
- adverb
- /ˈtɔːdrɪli/
:
de manera ostentosa
- She dressed tawdrily for the party, drawing shocked glances from the guests.
Examples
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She decorated her room tawdrily with bright plastic flowers.
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The movie was filled with tawdrily designed costumes.
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Billboards lined the street tawdrily advertising flashy sales and cheap jewelry.
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The lobby was tawdrily decorated with glitter and neon lights.
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The lobby was tawdrily decorated with glitter and neon lights.
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Billboards lined the street tawdrily advertising flashy sales and cheap jewelry.
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She dressed tawdrily for the party, drawing shocked glances from the guests.
Synonyms
2
7.6
In a very bright and tasteless way that attracts attention
1
5.5
In a clumsy way that is not graceful
1
6.7
In a way that shows bad taste or poor style
1
6.3
In a way that is too bright and too decorated
In a way that looks cheap and not stylish
In a showy but cheap and fake way
Antonyms
How Tasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tawdrily comes from the name Saint Audrey. At a fair long ago people sold cheap lace called 'Saint Audrey's lace', and the name became tawdry, meaning 'showy but cheap'. So tawdrily means doing something in a 'showy but cheap' way.