Synonyms for tawdry
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Gaudy — of clothing, appearance, etc., cheap and gaudy; showy
gaudy, garish, flashy, tacky, trashy, showy, chintzy, cheap, flaunting, tasteless, blatant, mean-spirited, tatty, crude, loud, campy, brassy, tinsel, meretricious, gay, obtrusive, inferior
Noun
Other
cheap-jack, schlock informal US
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of clothing, appearance, etc., cheap and gaudy; showy.
- n. 1
Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
Related words
- Word family
- tawdrily tawdriness
Forms
- Plural
- tawdries → cheapies, tacks, gauds, cheap-jacks…
Example sentences
- flashy Yanni bought Skura flashy and expensive things.
- tacky I don't like boxer shorts very much. They're tacky.
- gaudy Don't you think that necklace is a bit gaudy?
- garish The film is a simple story cloaked in garish splendour.
- shoddy I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
- sordid Sami's sordid love affair destroyed his marriage.
By length
- 3 letters
- gay1
- 4 letters
- loud1, tack1, gaud
- 5 letters
- cheap1, crude1, tacky2, gaudy2, showy2, campy2, tatty2
- 6 letters
- flashy2, trashy2, sordid2, shoddy2, garish2, tinsel2, brassy2
- 7 letters
- blatant2, schlock1, chintzy2, cheapie
- 8 letters
- inferior4
- 9 letters
- tasteless2, flaunting2, obtrusive3
- 12 letters
- meretricious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).