How to Use tawdry in a Sentence

tawdry

adjective

• The scandal was a tawdry affair.
• In the end, the case isn’t about the tawdry details of the hush money payments.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• There are way more tawdry details that none of us should have to know.
  — Author: Shannyn Moore | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2018
• The Porter scandal was, by turns, monstrous and tawdry.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 27 Mar. 2018
• So instead of a grand send-off, Mugabe had a tawdry one.
  — The Economist, 15 Sep. 2019
• And a new movie on the whole tawdry business is underway.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• As for Carroll’s tawdry Trump tale, there is slightly more to it, on both sides.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
• And what about the people who see betting on sports as immoral or tawdry?
  — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
• There's the tawdry true crime series that has no choice but to accept the things that Cameron claims at face value.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
• In the sin city of the 1990s, casinos had become marked by tawdry décor and all-you-can-eat buffets.
  — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
• Even eggs worth three or four thousand dollars looked tawdry and cheap.
  — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2018
• There’s no shame in it—only the risk of having a tawdry rendezvous with better health.
  — Sheryl Huggins Salomon, The Root, 5 Aug. 2017
• But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes and ball gowns.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns.
  — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
• But the tawdry tale suggests that there was plenty of blame to go around, including the Sheriffs Dept.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• But this tawdry tweet points to a much more dangerous consequence of Trump's war on much of the media.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 2 July 2017
• The Crown handles what could have been—and probably still is—a tawdry moment with humor and care.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• What boomers such as Sharpton have done is to discredit the sort of tawdry horse-trading that made that system work.
  — Park MacDougald, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
• If that rumor proves true, the rally would be a tawdry end to Trump’s presidency.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 12 Dec. 2020
• Lending support to Donald Trump in a tawdry quest for dollars.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2018
• My dotty building was home not only to the tawdry and the drunken, but also the homicidal.
  — Michael Milton, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• That show is a wretched, tawdry mess that never should have made it onto HBO’s schedule.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
• In the tawdry heart of Hollywood is the compelling Museum of Failure.
  — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• For the past several weeks, sports commentators had turned themselves loose to shed light on the tawdry roots of this World Cup.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• The new ones look tawdry and a little swagless, like replica jerseys.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
• The hegemon exhibits power by rising above such tawdry tricks.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• So maybe Satanic Panic is doing the Lord's work by holding the whole tawdry mess up for well-deserved ridicule.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2019
• As a result, these works of criticism are often tawdry or just plain boring.
  — SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
• One of her most tawdry jokes referenced her post-college career.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Now the tawdry allegations threaten to upend the case, and scrutiny of Wade's role in the case is only mounting.
  — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024