tawdry

tawdry is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
2. superlative. 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.
3. noun. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
4. adjective. cheap and shoddy- Judith Crist

   "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"

   Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy

5. adjective. tastelessly showy

   "a flash car"

   "a flashy ring"

   Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy

Synonyms

cheapjack, shoddy, brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy

Common word forms

tawdrier, tawdries, tawdrily, tawdriest

Words from these letters

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