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
  • The experience is opulence done right, paired with a rather enjoyable menu.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The brine of bottarga and spice of Scotch bonnet cut through the richness to balance out this dip that is a real treat to kick off your meal.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • A little hot sauce and black pepper add a kick that cuts through the richness.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 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
  • History suggests such optimism can falter amid fiscal extravagance.
    Bob Haber, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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