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Tawdriness

TAW'DRINESS, n. [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.

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TAW'DRINESS, n. [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.

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

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