tawdriness n 1: tasteless showiness [syn: {flashiness}, {garishness}, {gaudiness}, {loudness}, {brashness}, {meretriciousness}, {tawdriness}, {glitz}]
Tawdriness \Taw"dri*ness\, n. Quality or state of being tawdry. [1913 Webster] A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. --Richardson. [1913 Webster]