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English Dictionary: tawdriness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tawdriness
n
  1. tasteless showiness [syn: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tawdriness \Taw"dri*ness\, n.
      Quality or state of being tawdry.
  
               A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more
               ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.         --Richardson.
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