Tawdry

(superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

(superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

(n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

亨廷顿编辑

• It was a tawdry and ill-conceived imitation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Many Germans who thought him rash or tawdry in their secret hearts, supported him publicly because he had so taking an air of success. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What I saw struck me as tawdry, not grand; as grossly material, not poetically spiritual. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She was not beautiful, nor was she rouged, and her dress was rather neat than tawdry. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Many of the first employments of these gifts of science have been vulgar, tawdry, stupid, or horrible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was to be no clinging to tawdry superstitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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