tawdry

Could any of us give up the Way for something so tawdry?"

But just before we got there I realized how - tawdry it was going to be.

Some were actually pretty, or at least would have been if they weren't so tawdry.

Only the European part of his costume seemed tawdry and wrong.

Look, it's all so tawdry, and I feel embarrassed even talking about it.

We had not stumbled on a tawdry little fix or two.

Of course, such pure love cannot long flourish in a tawdry world.

Never had she felt her life so sordid and tawdry as now.

The name, like many here, stems from Haiti's tawdry history.

Beside him even the venerable head of the university looked tawdry and small.

Do the sponsors feel that this tawdry display does them any good?

He was put off, however, by the tawdry atmosphere of the nightclub in which the class took place.

Others worry that commercial development will inevitably create a tawdry public space.

Doctors come out of this article sounding like a very tawdry lot, indeed.

Its one of the reasons its a tawdry old business.

There are some people, he thought, whose devotion makes everything else around them seem tawdry and irrelevant.

Reality shows, with their often tawdry objectives, need this sentiment.

Republicans have always known in their hearts that liberals were a tawdry lot, after all.

There could still be a happy ending to this tawdry mess after all.

She had a few tawdry memories - and the constant presence of the woman who wanted to be his wife to deal with.

And we want true love - not a tawdry affair."

It was furnished, in poor style, to serve as a tawdry living room.

But the rest of the tawdry affair will proceed next month as planned.