Tawdry

a.	1.	Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. - Spenser.
	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. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. - Spectator.
n.	1.	A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. - Drayton.

Adj.	1.	tawdry - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonyms: flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy, brassy, cheap
	2.	tawdry - cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy

blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheapjack, chintzy, colorful, common, crude, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, loud, lurid, meretricious, obtrusive, plastic, screaming, sensational, shabby, shameless, sleazy, spectacular, tacky, tatty, tinny, tinsel, tinselly

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