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Definition of Tawdrinesses
1. tawdriness [n] - See also: tawdriness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawdrinesses
Literary usage of Tawdrinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Old Ceylon by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"... there will be innumerable tawdrinesses and horrors of tinsel—big gilt statues
jostling with marble ones, unrealities, shams, ugliness, and huddle. ..."
2. Prayers for the Use of Families; Or, The Domestic Minister's Assistant by William Jay (1866)
"... but in their devotional exercises loo, showing off their tawdrinesses, even
in the presence of God, and praying in a strained, inflated style, ..."
3. Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, and by Sophia Anne Cotton, George Edward Lynch Cotton (1871)
"... through which numerous votaries passed to deposit their offerings of flowers,
coloured cloths, fans, bits of gilding, feathers, and sundry tawdrinesses, ..."
4. Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts of the Church Year by Phillips Brooks (1895)
"... be exalted and made tolerable oy being taken up and lost in some great idea
of life — as the tawdrinesses and poor work that abounds in a great building ..."
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