tawdry rags

  • 1literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

    Universalium

  • 2tale — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, rambling ▪ familiar ▪ amazing, bizarre, curious (esp. BrE), extraordinary, fantastic …

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  • 3shoddy — Synonyms and related words: NG, abject, abominable, affected, apocryphal, arrant, artificial, assumed, atrocious, awful, base, bastard, beastly, beat up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, bogus, broken down, brummagem,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 4tacky — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, base, beat up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, boggy, breakable, brittle, broken down, brummagem, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, careless, cheap, cheap jack,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 5trumpery — n 1. rubbish, trash, riffraff, Brit. Dial. raff, litter, chaff; refuse, Dial. culch, garbage, waste, debris, detritus, rubble, wreckage; junk, worthless stuff, Sl. dreck; bits and pieces, odds and ends, fag ends, remnants; castoffs, rags, tatters …

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