As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.

Willie Mays, the baseball star and enduring role model, is dragged into this tawdry tale, not once but twice.

Embedded in this tawdry tale of show business skulduggery and child exploitation is the eternal philosophical predicament: "To jump or not to jump."

NCAA President Mark Emmert would like to erase all the tawdry tales from his .

A tawdry tale emerged of a love-sick jurist, his judgment befogged by medication, criminally harassing the woman.

"Johns" doesn't need Jesus; it doesn't even need Christmas to makes its grim, tawdry little tale hit home.

We should not have tawdry tales of their investigations filling our newspapers and television screens.

The list of tawdry tales has grown uncomfortably long.

Mariella Frostrup offered 'tawdry tales' of her failed attempts to get documentaries commissioned.

Mothers figure prominently in the tawdry tale.