tawdriness [to-dri-nes]sustantivoOropel, apariencia, brillo falso de oropel; calidad de chillón (colors); algo cursi.
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tawdriness [ˈtɔːdrɪnɪs]
noun
[of place, town] chabacanería; (f) She liked the place. It wasn't as soulless as LA and nowhere near as pretentious as San Francisco. It was without history, almost, something else she liked, its new tawdriness deliberate, functional It is, perhaps, easy to dwell on the tawdriness of this city, whose transient population, excepting its boxers and taxi-drivers, is largely white, elderly and grossly overweight
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