- Cheaply showy
- Meretricious
- Showy but worthless
- Tacky
- Tastelessly showy
- Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
- Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or
elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and
gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
- Clingy
- Covered with adhesive
- Tacky
- Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive;
gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.