tawdry

I wanted no plot by the time she reached her destination, a street of tawdry shops.

Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public houses at the corner.

A pair of tawdry ruffles dangled at his wrists, while his throat was nearly bare.

Look what a tawdry and vulgar thing an embroidered slipper is on a woman's foot."

He had time to note the light, fluffy something that hid her queenly head, the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure, the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery, at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress, their tragic efforts to be clean and trim, the cheap cloth, the cheap ribbons, and the cheap rings on the fingers.

Beside him even the venerable head of the university looked tawdry and small.

Her new cerise dress has been a failure, and makes her look tawdry and wan.

Over it hang some fifty gold and silver lamps, which are kept always burning, and the place is otherwise scandalized by trumpery, gewgaws, and tawdry ornamentation.

Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime.

"Can your idols walk or speak, or have they the glorious gift of reason?" demanded the trapper, with some indignation in his voice; "though but little given to run into the noise and chatter of the settlements, yet have I been into the towns in my day, to barter the peltry for lead and powder, and often have I seen your waxen dolls, with their tawdry clothes and glass eyes--"

It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding-cake.

It was the conventional, rather tawdry kind of erection for its purpose: a flattened dome or canopy, gilt here and there, and lifted on six slender pillars of painted wood, the whole being raised about five feet above the parade on a round wooden platform like a drum.