Crossword-Solution: TAWDRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tawdry | superl. | Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. |
| Tawdry | superl. | Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. |
| Tawdry | n. | A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “TAWDRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tinselly. | 1 answer |
| Tacky and loud | 1 answer |
| Showy but cheap | 1 answer |
| Really far from being haute couture | 1 answer |
| Like the Tonya Harding/Paula Jones boxing match | 1 answer |
| Cheaply showy | 1 answer |
| Cheap and shoddy | 1 answer |
| Cheap and gaudy | 2 answers |
| Gaudy and cheap | 2 answers |
| Showy and cheap | 2 answers |
| Cheap-looking | 4 answers |
| BAR CHEAP | 10 answers |
| CHEAP WAY TO GO | 10 answers |
| CHEAP CLOTHING | 10 answers |
| A CHEAP SHOWY RHINESTONE BRACELET | 10 answers |
| BE CHEAP | 11 answers |
| meretricious | 11 answers |
| CHEAP SHOWY JEWELRY OR ORNAMENT ON CLOTHING | 11 answers |
| Cheap and showy | 11 answers |
| Cheaply | 11 answers |
| Inartistic | 12 answers |
| CHEAP MAGAZINE | 12 answers |
| Tinsel | 19 answers |
| glaring | 38 answers |
| Garish | 43 answers |
| Flash-y? | 47 answers |
| frumpy | 49 answers |
| Gaudy | 54 answers |
| Inelegant | 64 answers |
| Tasteless | 67 answers |
| Cheap | 75 answers |
| Base | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAWDRY (5)
Even the trader, with trumpery gauds on his coat, aping the prevailing fashion for display, had a scared, uneasy look to his face, as though he had forgotten the mere name of safety, and hid a frantic heart with his tawdry outward vauntings of prosperity.
Life is a challenge all must meet, And nobly must we dare; Its gold is tawdry when we cheat, Its fame a bitter snare If it be stolen from life's clutch; Men must be true to prosper much.
Had we but that, we should be the most absolute parody and farce upon this tawdry earth.’ Yet, even while Otto spoke, he had continued to unfold the roll; and now, when it lay fully open, his eye rested on the title-page elaborately written in red ink.
Close by in the High Street perhaps the trumpets may sound about the stroke of noon; and you see a troop of citizens in tawdry masquerade; tabard above, heather-mixture trowser below, and the men themselves trudging in the mud among unsympathetic by-standers.
The next day there was the Petite Gulf, which bothered Xavier very little, and the day after that we came in sight of Natchez on her heights and guided our boat in amongst the others that lined the shore, scowled at by lounging Indians there, and eyed suspiciously by a hatchet-faced Spaniard in a tawdry uniform who represented his Majesty’s customs.
Quotes with TAWDRY (3)
Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).