Crossword-Solution: TAWDRINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tawdriness | n. | Quality or state of being tawdry. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TAWDRINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Meretricious quality | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TAWDRINESS (5)
The other thing is the poor tawdriness that kings and bosses crave and that shallow, snobbish people admire." "I see that," said Jane.
Now and then a streetwalker, roused early by a lover with perhaps a family waiting for him, hurried by, looking piteous in the daylight which showed up false and dyed hair, the layers of paint, the sad tawdriness of battered finery from the cheapest bargain troughs.
Without enlarging on the all-round tawdriness of this contract it will suffice here to say that Sophie and Adrien were married in London in August of 1818, the Duc presenting the bride with a dowry of about L5600 in francs.
The white nave was positively arctic to the eye; and the tawdriness of a continental altar looked more forlorn than usual in the solitude and the bleak air.
Nevertheless it is impossible to conceal the impression of tawdriness that this latter gentleman's work as head of the National Mission has left upon my mind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).