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Synonyms for tawdry
ˈtɔ dri
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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
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #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 |
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