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tawdry adjective baroque, blatant, brummagem, catchpenny, cheap, common, crass, crude, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, inelegant, loud, ostentatious, pretentious, shoddy, showy, sleazy, tasteless, tinsel, vulgar See also: blatant, meretricious, obtrusive, poor, pretentious How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The hotel's brochures refer to this neighborhood as Lower Nob Hill, though a more apt characterization might be Upper Tenderloin - an area that is still straining to shake off its tawdriness. They could, of course, simply have refrained from watching, but they knew, at least half-consciously--and more important, the networks knew, altogether consciously--that as private individuals we could not resist following the case in all its luxurious tawdriness. In light of the tawdriness of the situation, Mommy hides in an XXL rabbit costume. |
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