Definition of "tawdriness" [taw•dri•ness]

• The property of being tawdry. (noun)

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• "The person at fualt for the 'tawdriness' is Bill Clinton."
• "Yet the finished beads, whether attached in thick masses to garments, or strung in long flexible rows, were very comely and without a trace of the tawdriness, which is so characteristic of uncivilized peoples."
• "Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature."