TAWDRINESS

flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz

(noun) tasteless showiness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tawdriness (countable and uncountable, plural tawdrinesses)

The property of being tawdry.

Source: Wiktionary


Taw"dri*ness, n.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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9 January 2025

PRESENTATION

(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”


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