Definition of Tawdriness

1. Noun. Tasteless showiness.


Definition of Tawdriness

1. n. Quality or state of being tawdry.

Definition of Tawdriness

1. Noun. The property of being tawdry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tawdriness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawdriness

tavla
tavlas
tavorite
tavs
tavy
taw
tawa
tawaf
tawafs
tawara
tawas
tawdrier
tawdries
tawdriest
tawdrily
tawdriness (current term)
tawdrinesses
tawdry
tawdry lace
tawed
tawer
taweries
tawers
tawery
tawhid
tawie
tawier
tawiest
tawing
tawings

Literary usage of Tawdriness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art edited by David Ames Wells (1852)
"The whole effect of the mingling of these various colors is gay and elegant, without the least approach to tawdriness. Flags of different countries are ..."

2. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1838)
"tawdriness, as applied to individual plants, is the opposite of neatness; ... Often, tawdriness is the result of placing plants in confined situations, ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1893)
"Of contemporaries who tried )mewhat similar in point of ss, Wilson constantly becomes while Do Quincey sometimes es tawdriness. ..."

4. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1895)
"He is alas! when he unbends this pride, too often clumsily and even indecently gamesome. But with tawdriness, even with indulgence in literary frippery, ..."

5. A Bachelor Girl in Burma by Geraldine Edith Mitton (1907)
"My impressions of the place are of dirt, dust, tawdriness, ... In the evening the tawdriness vanishes, the lights gleam golden, red or green; they shine on ..."

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