1ADJ-GRADED 廉价的;俗气的 If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. 廉价的;俗气的
...tawdry jewellery.
廉价珠宝
2ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n](故事、事件)令人讨厌的,卑鄙的,不道德的 If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. (故事、事件)令人讨厌的,卑鄙的,不道德的
...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality.
她的幻想和冷酷的现实之间的巨大差距
...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining.