English Dictionary

tawdry

/ˈtɔːdɹi/

adj

(of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy. / (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.

She wore a tawdry dress to the party.

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, 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.