C16 tawdry lace, shortened and altered from Seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey (Etheldrida), 7th-century queen of Northumbria and patron saint of Ely, Cambridgeshire
Examples of 'tawdriest' in a sentence
tawdriest
That's the tawdriest and least rewarding of reasons, isn't it?