Word Meanings - TAWDRINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TAWDRINESS)

• Finery
• Overornament
• tawdriness
• tinsel
• gewgaw
• trinkets
• trash
• dressiness
• bedizenment
• Frippery
• Trumpery
• finery
• Tinsel
• Tawdriness
• spangle
• frippery
• glitter
• Trash
• nonsense
• trifles
• rubbish

Related words: (words related to TAWDRINESS)

• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• BEDIZENMENT
  That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
• RUBBISH
  Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• SPANGLE
  1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress. 2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.
• FRIPPERY
  1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• GLITTERAND
  Glittering. Spenser.
• TRUMPERY
  1. Deceit; fraud. Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to
• TRASH
  1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor. 2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. Note: In the
• TINSEL
  1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern
• SPANGLER
  One who, or that which, spangles.
• TRASHINESS
  The quality or state of being trashy.
• GLITTER
  glitenian, OS. glitan, OHG. glizzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, 1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden. 2.
• TINSELLY
  Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.
• STAR-SPANGLED
  Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.