meaning of tawdry
1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
2. 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.
3. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audreys fair; hence, a necklace in general.
4. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking. . . that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
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