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Showing words for TAWDRILY using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Tawdrily

tawdrily

7 Letter Words for Tawdrily

daywrit, tardily, wraitly, wrytail

6 Letter Words for Tawdrily

aridly, artily, atwirl, datril, drawly, lyraid, rialty, tawdry, traily, twarly, twirly, tylari, warily

5 Letter Words for Tawdrily

ality, artly, daily, dairt, dairy, datil, diary, dirty, dital, drail, drawl, idryl, italy, laird, lairy, laity, lardy, larid, liard, liart, lidar, litra, lyard, lyart, lyrid, radly, rawly, riyal, taily, tardy, tayir, tidal, trady, trail, trawl, triad, trial, trild, twirl, waily, waird, walty, warly, warty, wlity, yaird

4 Letter Words for Tawdrily

adit, adry, airt, airy, arid, aril, arty, aryl, atli, atry, awdl, awry, dail, dali, dalt, dari, dart, dawt, dial, dirl, dirt, dita, drat, draw, dray, idly, ital, iyar, lady, laid, lair, lait, lard, lari, lati, liar, lira, lyra, raid, rail, rait, rial, rita, ryal, tail, tald, tali, tari, tiar, tidy, tirl, trad, tray, trid, twal, tway, wadi, wadt, wady, waid, wail, wair, wait, wald, wali, walt, waly, ward, warl, wart, wary, wild, wilt, wily, wird, wirl, wiry, wray, writ, wyrd, yair, yald, yali, yard, yarl, yati, yawl, yilt, yird

3 Letter Words for Tawdrily

ady, aid, ail, air, ait, ald, alt, alw, aly, ard, art, ary, awd, awl, ayr, dal, dar, dat, daw, day, dia, dil, dir, dit, dlr, dry, dwt, ida, ira, ita, itd, iwa, lad, lai, lar, lat, law, lay, lid, lir, lit, ltd, ltr, rad, rai, rat, raw, ray, ria, rid, rit, rld, rly, rti, rtw, rwd, rwy, rya, tad, tai, tal, tar, taw, tay, tdr, tid, til, tlr, tra, tri, try, twa, twi, tyr, wad, war, wat, way, wid, wir, wit, wry, yad, yar, yat, yaw, yid

Definitions for Tawdrily

[1] (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
[2] low or mean; base: tawdry motives.
[3] cheap, gaudy apparel.
[4] cheap, showy, and of poor quality tawdry jewellery

Words related to Tawdrily

tawdrytacky, sleazy, vulgar, blatant, brazen, chintzy, common, crude, dirty, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glaring, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, plastic

Words nearby Tawdrily

tawdrytaverner, tavr, taw, tawa, tawai, tawdry, tawheowheo, tawhiri, tawie, tawney, tawny

Origin of Tawdrily

y1605–15; short for (Sain)t Audrey lace, i.e., neck lace bought at St. Audrey's Fair in Ely, England; so called after St. Audrey (Old English Aethelthrȳth, died 679), Northumbrian queen and patron saint of Ely, who, according to tradition, died of a throat tumor which she considered just punishment of her youthful liking for neck laces

Other words from Tawdrily

taw·dri·ly , adverb
taw·dri·ness , noun
un·taw·dry , adjective

Word origin for Tawdrily

yC16 tawdry lace, shortened and altered from Seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey (Etheldrida), 7th-century queen of Northumbria and patron saint of Ely, Cambridgeshire

Synonyms for Tawdrily

aloud, emphatically, noisily, powerfully, vehemently, vociferously, obstreperously, articulately, blatantly, boorishly, cheaply, conspicuously, crashingly, deafeningly, ear-splittingly, fully, garishly, gaudily, obtrusively, ostentatiously, piercingly, resonantly, resounding, ringingly, rudely, showily, shrilly, tastelessly, theatrically, thunderingly, uproariously, vulgarly