tawdriness

• “The person at fualt for the 'tawdriness' is Bill Clinton.”

  Purdum defends article slamming Bill Clinton

• “Yet the finished beads, whether attached in thick masses to garments, or strung in long flexible rows, were very comely and without a trace of the tawdriness, which is so characteristic of uncivilized peoples.”

  Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia

• “Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “Sidney understands the tawdriness of his dreams, though he can't free himself of their power over him.”

  The Huffington Post: Lev Raphael: The Story Behind Tony Curtis' Sweet Smell of Success

• “The worst smack of tawdriness, even indecency, which is why puns, like off-color jokes, are often followed by apologies.”

  Punditry

• “The students, the graying hippies, the Turks and the trademark tawdriness are all still there, but the corner has lost its authentic bustle, or gained a broader, more anonymous bustle, which suggests the check-in counter at an understaffed airport.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Kreuzberg Bellyaches Over Kebab Tourism

• “But he harbors secrets, mostly of his own psychopathology, which begin to surface as he gets caught up in local tawdriness.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me

• “In short, the real-life off-field exploits have started to outstrip the tawdriness depicted in television dramas such as Britain's popular "Footballers 'Wives" -- and the parade of mug shots and legal revelations that punctuate "SportsCenter" every night.”

  The Washington Post: For the World Cup to win over Americans, soccer shouldn't hide its ugly side

• “We are in an era of high-profile tawdriness among our highest profile athletic stars.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Brandt: Lawrence Taylor Another Example of Unchanged Behavior

• “The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury: Thank God for Herbert Asbury, the unapologetic yellow journalist from the 1930s who, a few years before publishing this masterpiece on the bawdiness and tawdriness of the Vieux Carré, wrote The Gangs of New York.”

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