tawdrily如何读

英:['tɔ:drɪlɪ]

美:['tɔdrɪlɪ]

tawdrily是什么意思

  • adv.俗丽地

tawdrily词根

词根:tawdry

adj.

tawdry 非常华丽的;廉价而俗丽的

n.

tawdry 俗丽的东西;廉价而俗丽之物

tawdriness 俗丽而不值钱;庸俗

tawdrily英英释义

adjective

cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality tawdry furniture "Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box … I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding-cake."—Oscar Wilde Any trip there carries with it more than its share of drabness, tawdry hotels and second-rate service, all of which tax the forbearance of the most patient traveler.—John F. Burns

tawdry clothing/jewels

morally sordid, base, or distasteful a tawdry love affair a tawdry attempt to smear his opponent Setting aside the tawdry manner in which his marriage had (publicly) unraveled, the mayor's combative style had begun to grate on many New Yorkers.—Jonathan Mahler

a tawdry scandal

noun

cheap showy finery

tawdrily词源英文解释

Adjectivetawdry lace a tie of lace for the neck, from St. Audrey (St. Etheldreda) †679 queen of Northumbria

The first known use of tawdry was in 1655

tawdrily儿童词典英英释义

taxi1 of 2noun

taxicabalso: a similarly operated boat or airplane

taxi2 of 2verb

to operate an airplane slowly on the ground under its own power

to ride in or transport by taxi

tax1 of 2verb

to require to pay a tax

to accuse of something

taxed them with carelessness

to make heavy demands on : strain

taxed our strength

tax2 of 2noun

a charge usually of money set by authority on persons or property for public purposes

something (as an effort or duty) that makes heavy demands : strain

taxationnoun

the action of taxingespecially: the establishing of taxes

tax1 of 2verb

to require to pay a tax

to accuse of something

taxed them with carelessness

to make heavy demands on : strain

taxed our strength

tax2 of 2noun

a charge usually of money set by authority on persons or property for public purposes

something (as an effort or duty) that makes heavy demands : strain

tawnoun

a marble used as a shooter

the line from which players shoot at marbles

tawny1 of 2adjective

of the color tawny

tawny2 of 2noun

a brownish orange to light brown color

tawdryadjective

cheap and showy

tawdryadjective

cheap and showy

tawdryadjective

cheap and showy

tawdrily 例句

1 In turn, some of the late Thatcher period's entrepreneurial energy would define the moment that was rather tawdrily labelled Cool Britannia.

2 To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

3 A younger female, tawdrily clad, but possessing features of sufficient power to attract Ned's especial gaze, was the only apparent occupant of the low habitation into which the elderly woman led the way.

4 It made the surrounding array of pretty silver cups and engraved medals look tawdrily insignificant.

5 In raw-boned wiriness and in feature, Saul Fulton was typically a mountaineer, but in dress and affectation of manner he was a nondescript aping the tawdrily and cheaply urban.

6 That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

7 Both were young; both were tawdrily dressed, with many strings of beads and rings on neck and fingers.

8 Now the stage paints rudely, often tawdrily; still it does paint.

9 To crown all, we met, as we entered, a huge, blowzy, tawdrily dressed woman, of most forbidding appearance, who, I was led to understand, was the mistress of the house.

10 Perhaps they were more like country milliners, and pupil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women. 

11 Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been a pleasure to the eyes even of those who did not know why they were pleased.

12 It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden.

13 It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious.

14 In tawdrily gorgeous apartments, where gathered the larger figures, the proconsuls of the world of crime, cold, conscienceless brains dissected the work of a colder and swifter brain than theirs, with suave and bitter envy.

15 He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses.

16 It isn't only that every day changed one's general outlook, but also that a boy fluctuates between phases of quite adult understanding and phases of tawdrily magnificent puerility.

17 Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine.

18 The scandal was a tawdry affair.

19 His attorneys pushed for a mistrial over the level of tawdry details Daniels went into on the witness stand, but Judge Juan M. Merchan denied the request.

20 But polls have found that most voters believe the hush-money charges qualify as weighty crimes despite their tawdry origins.

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