tawdriness

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Noun
  • Finally, women need to call this type of vulgarity out instead of being demure!
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • Fiona Crombie’s production design gives the movie an imposing scale (with a Mar-a-Lago vulgarity in the ostentatious décor of the Marshalls’ quarters), though for a project shot by Darius Khondji and screened in IMAX, the visuals are nothing special.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Iconic Venetian opulence right on the Grand Canal Where: San Marco district, Venice The Gritti Palace has long been associated with the opulence of Venice.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Lincoln Center became a key reference, grounding the show’s modernist New York visuals in contrast to the gilded opulence of Paris.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • But the combination of Brodeur’s magnificence, his durability and the Dead Puck Era added up to the record being shattered.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The first four show the magnificence of the views across the lagoon.
    Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth with an extravagance of sonic invention and dance.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
  • For years, the Mission: Impossible movies stood as a welcome bulwark against the world-building extravagance of Hollywood’s franchise craze.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But the Elysian Bar did them one better, augmenting the oysters’ natural luxuriance with thin slices of kumquat and a measured gush of chile-spiked citrus.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
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“Tawdriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawdriness. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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