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Definitions for Tawdry

[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 Tawdry

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

Words nearby Tawdry

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

Origin of Tawdry

1605–15; 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 Tawdry

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

Word origin for Tawdry

C16 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 Tawdry

sleazy, tacky, vulgar, blatant, brazen, chintzy, common, crude, dirty, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glaring, glittering, glitzy, jazzy, junky, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, plastic, poor, raffish, screaming, showy, sporty, tinsel