单词 | tawdriness |
释义 | tawdrinessn. The quality of being tawdry. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > tawdriness tawdriness1670 frippery1802 tattiness1952 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 161 There was a kind of tawdriness in their Habits. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty vi. 35 That tawdriness may not destroy the proper effect of variety. 1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present I. ii. 139 The tinsel and tawdriness of an imitative dauber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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