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tawdrily
adverb
uk /ˈtɔː.drəl.i/ us /ˈtɑː.drəl.i/
tawdrilyadverb (LOW QUALITY)
in a way that is of low quality:
Three weeks into January, some cheap Christmas decorations still hung tawdrily in the windows of the shop.
These tawdrily produced old novels were meant to be disposable but can now fetch serious money from collectors.
His apartment was tawdrily furnished with threadbare chairs and a sofa acquired at a garage sale.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not of good quality
am-dram
appallingly
atrocious
atrociously
awfully
awfulness
cheesy
hacky
inadequacy
inadequate
inadequately
janky
shite
skanky
sort
tawdriness
tawdry
thinness
trinket
wretched
tawdrilyadverb (IMMORALLY)
in a way that shows or has low moral standards:
The movie is a tawdrily entertaining tale about a doomed love affair that leads to murder.
The producers of the chat show tawdrily exploited the couple's story for the sake of ratings.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
abhorrent
abhorrently
amoral
amorality
anomie
dissipated
dissolute
dissolutely
dissoluteness
enormity
nefariously
nefariousness
no goodidiom
no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
non-ethical
trespass
turpitude
unconscionable
unconscionably
unethical
Related word
tawdry
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