What are some alternative words for tawdry?
Synonyms for tawdry
ˈtɔ dri
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term tawdry.
Princeton's WordNet
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy(adj)
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Synonyms:
forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, loud, punk, shabby, flashy, meretricious, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishycheapjack, shoddy, tawdry(adj)
cheap and shoddy
"cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
Synonyms:
flashy, cheapjack, garish, trashy, jerry-built, meretricious, tacky, gimcrack, loud, flash, brassy, tatty, deceptive, misleading, cheap, gaudy, shoddy
English Synonyms and Antonyms
tawdry
Synonyms:
clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rough, rude, ruggedAntonyms:
artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
tawdry(a.)
Synonyms:
showy (without elegance), gaudy, flashy, glittering, in bad taste
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
tawdry(a)
Synonyms:
gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#827 | cheap | |
#1174 | flash | |
#5312 | punk | |
#5548 | rough | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#6888 | loud | |
#9817 | inexpensive | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#12142 | rugged | |
#12199 | rude | |
#12256 | misleading | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#18726 | forte | |
#20585 | bum | |
#20982 | trashy | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#23717 | sporty | |
#24641 | deceptive | |
#24752 | cheesy | |
#25249 | shabby | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#28916 | jazzy | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#33159 | sleazy | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#34679 | gilded | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#37348 | horrid | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#44447 | brazen | |
#51684 | audacious | |
#51821 | shoddy | |
#53694 | showy | |
#55663 | tinsel | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#70480 | insolent | |
#71862 | specious | |
#73054 | crummy | |
#77475 | tinny | |
#79242 | garish | |
#79400 | ratty | |
#85672 | tatty | |
#96968 | brassy | |
#98669 | bodacious | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#142674 | displeasing | |
#162489 | fulsome | |
#193434 | chintzy | |
#209600 | meretricious | |
#277340 | barefaced | |
#294990 | inharmonious |
How to use tawdry in a sentence?
An end to SeaWorld's tawdry and circus-style performance is inevitable, but it's actually captivity that denies these far-ranging orca the opportunity to engage in behaviors that are natural and important to them.
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