tawdriness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TAW'DRINESS, noun [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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