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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Quality or state of being tawdry.

A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by

tawdriness

of dress.

Richardson.

Noun.

[from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.

A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.

tawdriness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural tawdrinesses)