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tawdry
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The argument between large or small tawdriness is only minimally significant.
I particularly like this one: AT A MELODRAMA The leading lady suffered, while I yawned; But a girl beside Me sat and cried-- Her tears that rose unbidden washed away The timeworn tawdriness that stained the play.
Such desperate tawdriness makes me long for the days when a PETA operative would show up outside the Sole in a family-friendly fish costume, advocating for the rights of haddock by holding a poignant sign reading, "Don't Batter Me.
 
 
 
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