tawdry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Tawdry lace.
2. isim Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

   “That fiddling, parading fellow (you know who I mean) made us wait for him two hours […] only for the sake of having a little more tawdry upon his housings […].”

3. sıfat Of clothing, appearance, etc., cheap and gaudy; showy.

   “The rest of his dress—a dress always sufficiently tawdry—was overcharged with lace, embroidery, and ornament of every kind, and the plume of feathers which he wore was so high, as if intended to sweep the roof of the hall.”

4. sıfat Of a character, behavior, or situation, etc., unseemly, base, mean-spirited, shameful.

   “[T]he "greaser" was a dirty, idle, shiftless, treacherous, tawdry vagabond, dwelling in a disgracefully primitive house, and backward in every aspect of civilization.”