Usually means: Cheap, showy, and of poor quality.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word TAWDRY:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. tawdry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tawdry: Merriam-Webster
  3. tawdry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tawdry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tawdry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tawdry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tawdry, tawdry: Wordnik
  8. tawdry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tawdry: Wiktionary
  10. tawdry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tawdry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tawdry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tawdry: Dictionary.com
  14. tawdry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tawdry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tawdry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tawdry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tawdry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tawdry: Rhymezone
  20. tawdry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tawdry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Tawdry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tawdry: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tawdry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Tawdry: The Word Detective
  26. tawdry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Tawdry: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tawdry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tawdry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tawdry: A Word A Day
  2. tawdry: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tawdry: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tawdry)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) Tawdry lace.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
▸ adjective:  (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
▸ adjective:  (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.

Similar:
brassy, tacky, cheapjack, tatty, flash, trashy, gimcrack, loud, shoddy, cheap, more...

Opposite:
tasteful, elegant, refined, gracious, chic, stylish

Types:
gaudy, tacky, garish, brassy, showy, ostentatious, vulgar, more...

Phrases:
tawdry lace, kind of tawdry and shoddy, tawdry or sexual, most tawdry, humorously tawdry, more...

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Similar:
brassy, tacky, cheapjack, tatty, flash, trashy, gimcrack, loud, shoddy, cheap, more...

Opposite:
tasteful, elegant, refined, gracious, chic, stylish

Types:
gaudy, tacky, garish, brassy, showy, ostentatious, vulgar, more...

Phrases:
tawdry lace, kind of tawdry and shoddy, tawdry or sexual, most tawdry, humorously tawdry, opposite of tawdry, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     neon pink,     neon green,     neon yellow, more...



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