What a tawdry dress!
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Tawdry
//ˈtɔːdɹi//
Synonyms for "tawdry" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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Translations
40 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- безвкусен adj (gaudy)
Catalan
2 entries- carrincló adj (gaudy)
- xaró adj (gaudy)
Czech
4 entries- laciný adj (gaudy)
- mrzký adj (unseemly, base, shameful, sordid)
- nevkusný adj (gaudy)
- pouťový adj (gaudy)
Dutch
3 entries- kitscherig adj (gaudy)
- opzichtig adj (gaudy)
- smakeloos adj (gaudy)
French
2 entries- kitsch adj (gaudy)
- tape-à-l’œil adj (gaudy)
German
4 entries- aufgedonnert adj (gaudy)
- aufgetakelt adj (gaudy)
- bunt adj (gaudy)
- flitterhaft adj (gaudy)
Greek
1 entries- αγιοβασιλιάτικος adj (gaudy)
Macedonian
1 entries- бе́звкусен adj (gaudy)
Portuguese
2 entries- espalhafatoso adj (gaudy)
- mixuruca adj (gaudy)
Russian
1 entries- безвку́сный adj (gaudy)
Sicilian
4 entries- zagurdu adj (gaudy)
- zallu adj (gaudy)
- zannu adj (gaudy)
- zurbu adj (gaudy)
Spanish
3 entries- chabacano adj (gaudy)
- charro adj (gaudy)
- hortera adj (gaudy)
Turkish
1 entries- rüküş adj (gaudy)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
You can tell they have no taste in furniture because their apartment is filled to the brim with tawdry garbage they bought on clearance.
Source: tatoeba (10921420)
Most of the buildings were five or six stories in height, and their curtained, oblong windows and the bright, tawdry shops at their base had an oddly lifeless aspect, in spite of the sounds and animations which occurred within and around them.
Source: tatoeba (11945588)
Greg, with his shaved head and monochrome beige outfit, might indeed carry a hint of Chabacano—not only in hue ("chabacano" can mean tawdry or gaudy in Spanish, but also refers to a Philippine creole rich in cultural blending), but perhaps also in the way he casually blends cultures himself: a white man dreaming of a Bed & Breakfast in Ainu country, with a Japanese wife, and a fondness for understated simplicity. Beige shorts and T-shirt—earth-toned, like compost and bamboo stalks.
Source: tatoeba (13316977)
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