tawdriness

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Noun
  • Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ranging from 1,900 to over 3,000 square feet, the two-, three-, and four-bedroom residences are defined by opulence.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • According to Talk magazine, Morris was primarily raised in New York, where she was surrounded by opulence.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cheese A bit of cheese in your salad not only adds bold flavor, but the fat in varieties like Parmesan, Romano, or goat cheese also adds richness to help keep you satisfied.
    Allison Forsyth, Health, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Chicken broth, garlic, and cream add a lot of flavor and richness to the potatoes.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Since the outset of Major League Baseball’s Live Ball Era in 1920 through the present day, Kershaw’s magnificence begins with winning percentage.
    Wayne G. McDonnell, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Five different combined wavelengths show the true magnificence and diversity of phenomena at play in the Crab Nebula.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All of Beaton’s extravagance, artifice and pretence stemmed from him trying to become something he was never born into.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • People are turning back to color and extravagance, especially with eye makeup.
    Essence, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The comic luxuriance of Roman references should not blind us to the significance of these constant appeals to the Roman Republic and to classical virtue.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
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“Tawdriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawdriness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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