When they are not tawdry opportunities to air grievances, settle scores or rationalise errors, they tend to be tales of adversity with a triumphant twist.(作者不是借此機會大吐苦水，一了私人恩怨或為自己的過錯辯解，就是講述自己在逆境中突出重圍的陳詞濫調。)

Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.(經典文化和藝術已經被低俗的故弄玄虛，外國儀式和假期的照片所替代。)

You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition?(你想讓我把才智浪費在這種華而不實的比賽上嗎？)

What seemed sweet and sad immediately turns shabby and tawdry.(當時的甜蜜和傷心立馬變得卑鄙和惡俗起來。)

I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. it was a tawdry affair call cupids and cornucopias like third-rate wedding-cake.(我從帷幔后邊掃視整個劇場。真是俗不可耐，盡布置些愛神和豐饒角熱鬧得像個三等的婚禮蛋糕。)

The channel reinvented itself in 1996 as a purveyor of tawdry nostalgia with Pop-Up Video and perfected the form six years later with I Love the 80s.(該頻道在1996年把自己重新定位為以彈出視頻方式提供華麗懷舊的供應者，在六年后以“我愛80年代”達到了形式的完美。)

Fashion? Or just tawdry?(時尚？或者只是庸俗？)

Steve Coogan, a comedian whose private life has often been newspaper fodder, complained about "tawdry muckraking" and the "sociopathic" treatment meted out by editors.(私生活經常見報的喜劇演員史蒂夫·庫根抱怨被各報刊公然地揭發隱私，遭受到編輯們“反社會的”對待。)

The amusement parks of the 1920's and 30's were tawdry, dirty, sleazy places.(該游樂園的20世紀20年代和30年代的俗氣，骯臟，骯臟的地方。)

Sheldon: You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition?(謝爾頓：你想讓我把才智鋪張在這種華而不實的比賽上嗎？)

A poor bedizened creature, clad in tawdry.