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Definition of Tawdriness
1. Noun. Tasteless showiness.
Generic synonyms: Tastelessness
Derivative terms: Flashy, Flashy, Garish, Gaudy, Gaudy, Loud, Meretricious, Tawdry, Tawdry
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
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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