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adj. Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. See Synonyms at gaudy1.

adj. Shameful or indecent: tawdry secrets.

n. Cheap and gaudy finery.

adj. Cheap and gaudy; showy.

adj. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

adj. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy

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

n. A piece of rustic or cheap finery; a necklace, as of strung beads; a ribbon.

Characterized by cheap finery; gaudy; showy and tasteless; having too much or misapplied ornament; cheap; worthless.

Synonyms Tawdry, Gaudy. That which is tawdry has lost whatever freshness or elegance it has had, but is worn as if it were fresh, tasteful, and elegant, or it may be a cheap and ostentatious imitation of what is rich or costly; that which is gaudy challenges the eye by brilliant color or combinations of colors, but is not in good taste.

adj. tastelessly showy

adj. cheap and shoddy

"This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity"

tasteless    inferior   

tawdrier    tawdriest   

gaud   

Audrey   

gaudy    showy    meretricious    ostentatious    gorgeous    flashy    sumptuous    costly    dingy    threadbare