| 单词 | tawdry |
| 释义 | tawdry (once / 4048 pages) adj Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs. You know that shiny black slip you picked up for nothing at a garage sale and used as the skirt of your lion-tamer Halloween costume? It's a bit tawdry. But it would really be tawdry if you wore it on a regular day out. Tawdry things often have a hint of desperation and immorality — like tawdry extramarital affairs or tawdry tales. With tawdry decorations and jewelry, quality has been exchanged for lots of flash and shine. WORD FAMILYtawdry: tawdrier, tawdriest, tawdrily, tawdriness USAGE EXAMPLES“I became a collector of all this tawdry used signage,” he said. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) That TV world where no self–promotion is too tawdry, and morality is for wimps? The Guardian(Dec 10, 2016) We met for dinner at an Italian restaurant in Getsemani, a spirited neighborhood emerging from a tawdry period. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj tastelessly showy tawdry ornaments Syn brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste 2adj cheap and shoddy Syn cheapjack, shoddy inferior of low or inferior quality |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。