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Definition of Tawdriest
1. tawdry [adj] - See also: tawdry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawdriest
Literary usage of Tawdriest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"... of the mighty traditions of their forefathers, and ready to exchange the
greatness of English fairness and freedom for the tawdriest of imperialisms. ..."
2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"Caesar's record of vulgar scheming for the tawdriest mockeries of personal worship
is a silly and shameful record ; it is incompatible with ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The tawdriest wax-works, girt up in paste and spangles are also "drawn from life";
but there ends the resemblance.—HORNE, RICHARD HENGIST, 1844, ..."
4. The Bookman (1903)
"... and the New York which he offers in contrast to this is not the best that the
city has to offer, but its vulgarest, tawdriest and most offensive side. ..."
5. History of American Verse (1610-1897) by James Lawrence Onderdonk (1901)
"... are the tawdriest shams that ever glittered with tin swords and tinsel armor
on the melodramatic stage. The broad, free play of his fancy is least ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"But, as a rule, he oscillated between the tawdriest of fine writing, in the worst
sense of that term, and sentences which show that poetry of a high order ..."
7. A Journey in the Back Country by Frederick Law Olmsted (1860)
"Their books are generally the cheapest and tawdriest of religious holiday books,
as Mr. Sears'publications, Fox's "Martyrs," the "Biography of Distinguished ..."
8. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"Taoism, starting as mysticism, has degenerated into a hotch-potch of the crudest
and tawdriest superstitions. As for the Buddhism of China, let no one look ..."
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