intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality 俗丽而不值钱的；俗气的；花里胡哨的 tawdry jewellery 俗丽便宜的首饰
involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive 粗俗的；下流的；卑鄙的；卑污的 a tawdry affair 卑鄙下流的勾当
Word Originearly 17th cent.: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th cents, contraction of St Audrey's lace: Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair.