বিস্বাদ showiness

tawdriness's Usage Examples:

What could have been an exercise in tawdriness is redeemed by the colorful camerawork of Georges Perinal.

In a way, Felix is a personification of the tawdriness of Larry and Maggie's affair.

Sly, off-kilter humor balances the essential tawdriness of prostitution, drug dealing and contract killing, resulting in a strikingly.

Allison's band, and described the album as a "fine balance of violence, tawdriness, refined beauty and raw satire".

Chalga is often criticized for its "tawdriness", "loose morals", its "disconnection from Bulgarian music tradition"s.

offered a place to rear a family close to, but not in, the increasing tawdriness of Myrtle Beach itself.

imagination may be limited, but she is not insincere and the heartfelt tawdriness of Hit Me Like a Man is oddly compelling.

nice twists and turns, the tension builds a good head of steam, and the tawdriness never lets up.

of something sinister… and the general effect was the very essence of tawdriness.

the design of London's Tower Bridge, saying "it represents the vice of tawdriness and pretentiousness, and of falsification of the actual facts of the structure".

manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism.

determined not to go so much as a millimeter over the line into sentiment, tawdriness or mockery.

They reveal the tawdriness of the Gang's half-truths.

film a "brainless comedy," adding: "The film may try to renounce its own tawdriness, but not Ms.

"It represents the vice of tawdriness and pretentiousness, and of falsification of the actual facts of the structure".

despicable ideas that makers of autopsy porn look down on its delicious tawdriness.

and earth", he wrote, "is a pathetic unsuccessful realism, the kind of tawdriness you get in a 3rd rate musical or pantomime, that quality of pompier, laughably.

indifferent stuff, too full of snakes and hidden treasure and general tawdriness – the kind of Orientalism, in fact, that one used to associate chiefly.

Bazelon of Slate has called Toensing "a blanketer of the airwaves about the tawdriness of the Lewinsky affair.

tawdriness's Meaning':

tasteless showiness

Synonyms:

meretriciousness; brashness; garishness; gaudiness; loudness; glitz; tastelessness; flashiness;

Antonyms:

tastefulness; beauty; softness; soft; loud;