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Example sentences for: tawdry

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Shorter might be too silly or too daring, longer too staid or too sultry, either choice might be too modish or too tawdry.
To publish one article on this tawdry subject may be regarded as a slip-up; to publish two looks like an obsession.
The press, he says, "could define tawdry voyeurism as the study of 'character,' but the labeling couldn't obscure the true nature of this new kind of reporting."
The story of the sexual activity is disturbing, given the power imbalances between the participants, but the story is a tawdry one, and most well-mannered people would just as soon not have to hear about it, especially since the "victim" is not making any complaint.
All the way east to place Pigalle and beyond runs a ribbon of tawdry nightlife, with sex shops, peep shows, and other dubious attractions, punctuated by a few conventional restaurants and bars.