Reverse Dictionary: TAWDRY

ADJECTIVES
– DAY-GLO blatantly gaudy or tawdry; cheaply flashy; vulgarly colourful and bright…1950s Amer. sl.
– MAWKY of a woman: dowdy and ungainly; wearing tawdry finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAGGLETIE coarse in appearance, haggard and tawdry …a1838 Sc.
– RORY-TORY having a mixture of all sorts of flaring colours; gaudy, tawdry, showy, dashing; generally used of colour in dress …1874 Eng. & Amer. dial.  
– TACKEY;  TACKY of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1862 Amer. sl.
– TANTAWDHERLY tawdry, slovenly …1889 Eng. dial.
– TATHERY-OUTERY tawdry, flaunting …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
– TAUPIE;  TAUPY;  TAWPIE;  TAWPY foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry …1823 Sc.

ADVERBS
1968 ► CHAUNCHY in a cheap, tawdry manner → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1680 ► TAWDRUM a tawdry decoration → obs.
1820 ► TINSELRY showy and tawdry material or ornamentation
1833 ► FALLALERY tawdry finery; gaudy ornament
1850 ► MONMOUTH STREET FINERY tawdry clothes, furniture, etc.; pretense, pretentiousness → Brit. colloq.
20C ► FAIRINGS tawdry articles sold or to be won at a fair

NOUNS, PERSON
1639 ► BARTHOLOMEW BABY a tawdrily dressed person; an overdressed woman
1674 ► DAWKIN a slatternly woman; one who is dirty and tawdry in her dress; a sloven, a slut → Eng. dial.
1855 ► DOZZLE an oddly-dressed, tawdry woman; a slattern → Eng. dial.
1876 ► BEAGLE a tawdry or strangely-dressed person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
1689 ► BETAWDER to bedizen with tawdry finery, to adorn gaudily → obs.