Tawdry
['tɔːdrɪ] or ['tɔdri]
解释:
(superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
(superl.) 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.
(n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
亨廷顿编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. Showy (without elegance), gaudy, flashy, glittering, in bad taste.
录入:万斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Showy, flashy, tinsel, gaudy, meretricious
ANT:Chaste, rich, elegant, handsome, sumptuous
赫尔曼手打
解释:
adj. showy without taste: gaudily dressed.—adj. Taw′dered tawdrily dressed.—adv. Taw′drily.—n. Taw′driness.—n.pl. Taw′drums finery.
整理:玛米
例句:
- It was a tawdry and ill-conceived imitation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Many Germans who thought him rash or tawdry in their secret hearts, supported him publicly because he had so taking an air of success. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What I saw struck me as tawdry, not grand; as grossly material, not poetically spiritual. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- She was not beautiful, nor was she rouged, and her dress was rather neat than tawdry. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Many of the first employments of these gifts of science have been vulgar, tawdry, stupid, or horrible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There was to be no clinging to tawdry superstitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:蒂娜