Word "TAWDRY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
tastelessly showy
Synonyms:
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy
Examples:
tawdry ornaments

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
made of inferior workmanship and materials
Synonyms:
cheapjack, shoddy

Crossword Clues for TAWDRY

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Shabby Devon river with no water! (6)
After time children's author is cheap (6) The Guardian Cryptic 21 Apr 2025
Flashy Mirror Tea Time 01 Mar 2025
Showy without taste or worth
Attempt to pocket wad, terrible and sordid (6)
Cheap, gaudy
Garish Eugene Sheffer 06 Jan 2025
Choice marble, free of moisture, is cheap! (6)
Cheap & showy
Retired wife at TT dressed OTT The Telegraph Toughie 25 Oct 2024
Poor quality marble that's uninteresting (6)
Marbles dusty and garish (6)
Gaudy; flashy but of poor quality esp. jewellery (6)
Showy but worthless
Tasteless Mirror Tea Time 28 Jul 2024
Sordid attempt to pocket ridiculous wad (6) Puzzler Cryptic 14 Jul 2024
Volunteers, parched, holding first of watches, showy and cheap
Cheap and gaudy (6) Puzzler 22 May 2024
After a time children's author becoming vulgar (6) The Guardian Cryptic 06 May 2024
Loud cheers and mocking to welcome daughter
Cheap-looking marble is uninteresting
Flashy but shoddy (6)
Vulgar, tasteless (6)
Attempt to include fancy wad that's cheap and showy (6)
Vulgar The Guardian Quick 19 Feb 2024
Flashy western doctor detained by Scottish banker (6)
After short time children's author becomes vulgar The Telegraph Cryptic 01 May 2023
Tacky and loud New York Times 22 Mar 2023
Gaudy The Telegraph Quick 04 Mar 2023
Shoddy to toy heartlessly with troubled ward Irish Times Crosaire 14 Jun 2022
Cheap and shoddy Irish Times Simplex 27 Aug 2021
A large marble drive and yard is cheap and gaudy Irish Times Crosaire 21 Aug 2021
Garish Eugene Sheffer 23 Feb 2021
Cheap and shoddy Irish Times Simplex 15 Dec 2020
Tasteless cheers, prohibitionist drinking whisky The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jul 2020
Cheap and gaudy The Telegraph Quick 11 May 2020
Sleazy alley having no pubs The Telegraph Toughie 19 Mar 2020
Cheap and showy The Telegraph Quick 05 Feb 2020
Gaudy Newsday 05 Jan 2020
Poor quality marble, lacking interest
Tastelessly showy The Telegraph Quick 07 Jul 2019
Showy but cheap The Times Concise 02 May 2019
Cheap and gaudy New York Times 24 Jun 2018
Garish Thomas Joseph 07 Apr 2018
Initially trite and wholly uninteresting, becoming cheap and tacky
Cheap and gaudy
Gaudy and cheap Universal 11 Dec 2017
Cheers! Prohibitionist drinking whisky -- it's just for show The Telegraph Toughie 21 Jun 2017
Vulgar The Telegraph Quick 18 May 2017
Cheap Thomas Joseph 02 Mar 2017
Gaudy and cheap
Attempt to block a word extremely vulgar
Cheap and showy Irish Times Simplex 24 May 2016
Showy but cheap Irish Times Simplex 05 Apr 2016
Gaudy and cheap USA Today 12 Apr 2015
Gaudy and cheap
Showy and cheap
Cheap and gaudy
Cheap and gaudy
Showy and cheap
Showy but cheap
Cheap
Cheap and shoddy
Base
Cheap and shoddy
Cheap-looking
Cheap and showy
Base
Cheap and showy
Cheap
Base
Like the Tonya Harding/Paula Jones boxing match
Cheaply showy
Meretricious
Gaudy
Meretricious.
Tinselly.
Cheap and gaudy.
Gaudy and cheap.
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