tawdriness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tawdriness
    n 1: tasteless showiness [syn: {flashiness}, {garishness},
         {gaudiness}, {loudness}, {brashness}, {meretriciousness},
         {tawdriness}, {glitz}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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