Example sentences for: tawdry

How can you use “tawdry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among the elements of Lynch's self-plagiarism: an eerie soundtrack, creepy characters ( femmes fatales , scary thugs, ghoulish freak), and lots of tawdry sex.

  • To publish one article on this tawdry subject may be regarded as a slip-up; to publish two looks like an obsession.

  • We deplore the tawdry chain of events itself--whether the deplorable scenario should turn out to be a president misbehaving and lying about it under oath, or the government brought to a halt by the fevered imaginings of an overexcitable young woman.

  • Staring at the independent counsel, who's seated below him at the witness table, Conyers scolds "Kenneth W. Starr" (as he repeatedly calls him) for writing "the tawdry, salacious, and unnecessarily graphic" report and for "cross[ing] the line into obsession."

  • Those hoping for months of tawdry sex revelations will be disappointed.


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