tawdry

tawdry

englanti

1. halpa, mauton

Synonyymisanakirja: tawdry

tawdry

1. ala-arvoinen, kehno, halpahintainen, halpamainen, surkea, mauton, tyylitön, rehentelevä, köykäinen, komeileva, prameileva, korea, leventelevä, pröystäilevä, epäaistikas, pöyhkeilevä, pramea.

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Riimisanakirja: tawdry

tawdry rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. henry, sherry, sorry, curry, kärry, ostoskärry, peräkärry, country, jury, treasury...

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Käännökset: tawdry

tawdry suomeksi

halpamainen, pöyhkeilevä

tawdry englanniksi

• puhekieltä cheap Cheap and gaudy; showy.

• 1823, w:Sir Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward, ch. 33:

The rest of his dress—a dress always sufficiently tawdry—was overcharged with lace, embroidery, and ornament of every kind, and the plume of feathers which he wore was so high, as if intended to sweep the roof of the hall.

• 1917, w:Alice Hegan Rice|Alice Hegan Rice, Calvary Alley, ch. 20:

It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry, from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns.

• puhekieltä unseemly Unseemly, base, shameful.

• 1918, w:Stewart Edward White|Stewart Edward White, The Forty-Niners, ch. 1:

The "greaser" was a dirty, idle, shiftless, treacherous, tawdry vagabond, dwelling in a disgracefully primitive house, and backward in every aspect of civilization.

• 1920, w:E. Phillips Oppenheim|E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation, ch. 16:

The woman's passion by his side seemed suddenly tawdry and unreal, the seeking of her lips for his something horrible.

• 2008 August 9, Clemente Lisi, "http://nypost.com/2008/08/09/lusty-lies-of-don-juan-john/ Lusty Lies of Don Juan John," New York Post (retrieved 16 Dec 2013):

After months of flat-out lying to the public, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally copped to having a sleazy extramarital fling. . . . The tawdry affair has dogged Edwards over the past few months.

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