tawdry

3 definitions • 5 examples

looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality:

Their ugly front garden and tacky, tawdry lights fail to reflect our village image.

A lot of the city's housing consists of nondescript houses and some districts are downright tawdry.

showing or having low moral standards:

She humiliated her husband with her tawdry affair.

tawdry revelations about his visits to prostitutes

showy, cheap, and of poor quality:

tawdry jewelry/furnishings