tawdrily

1. 1.

   in a tastelessly garish manner

   “the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers”

   Synonymsgarishlygaudily

Questions about tawdrily

What does tawdrily mean?

tawdrily means "in a tastelessly garish manner".

How many syllables are in tawdrily?

tawdrily has 3 syllables: taw-dri-ly. The stress falls on "taw".

What is another word for tawdrily?

Close synonyms include garishly, gaudily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tawdrily a common word?

tawdrily is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.