Tawdry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 85 anagrams from letters in tawdry (adrtwy).
1605-15; short for (Sain)t Audrey lace, i.e., neck lace bought at St. Audrey's Fair in Ely, England; so called after St. Audrey (Old English Aethelthrȳth, died 679), Northumbrian queen and p
The effect of this was certainly incongruous, not to say tawdry.
The tawdry details of the Clinton scandals differed, but the basic narrative was one to which Americans were becoming inured.
The town was tawdry in its preparations--and knew it; but half sincere in its enthusiasm--and knew it.
The few ornaments were new, and not at all dusty or dingy or tawdry.
The only way to achieve this, she decides, is to live tawdrily, in a tawdry place.
The fire was the really great adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.
The show has been accused of peddling the kind of tawdry sentiment that has driven the inhabitants of Detroit to distraction.
So, why is it, then that are there so few movies lately that are not jaded, tawdry, humorlessly moralistic, or amorally violent?
The fire was the only adornment; all else was cheap, and some of it was tawdry.
But using donors to enrich oneself is as an old and tawdry practice that is about getting rich, not famous.