tawdry

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (usually) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
2. (usually) Unseemly, base, mean-spirited, shameful.

Noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Tawdry lace.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

Concepts

tapageur

voyant

criard

fort

kitsch

sans valeur

de camelote

de pacotille

pas cher

bariolé

tape-à-l’œil

bon marché

économique

Synonymes

gaudy

flashy

cheap

tacky

garish

brassy

tatty

trashy

flash

meretricious

loud

trumpery

cheapjack

shoddy

gimcrack

ornate

tinsel

showy

tinselly

vain

vainglorious

vile

Brummagem

cheap-looking

chaffy

cheesy

cock-a-hoop

common

crowing

dirty

fancy

flamboyant

flaunty

frippery

general

highfalutin

ignoble

insignificant

jazzy

scurvy

sordid

Traductions

kitschig

chillón

llamativo

smakeloos

espalhafatoso e mixuruca

billig

sgargiante

flitterhaft

vistoso

opzichtig

espalhafatoso

vistoso

charro

bayağı

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtɔːdɹi/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à ancien anglais: Æðelþryð

In summary

Shortened from tawdry lace; originally a corruption and rebracketing of Saint Audrey lace (from Old English Æðelþrȳð). The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey fell out of fashion in the 17th century, and so tawdry was reinterpreted as meaning “cheap” or “vulgar”.