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Tawdry- showy but cheap and of low quality; meretricious
Ex: The lady of the night pranced about the promiscuously dim street corner wearing a tight purple sequin evening gown and tawdry hoop earrings. You know the old saying, the bigger the hoop, the bigger the whore. And these puppies were the diameter of watermelons. Just then, a well-to-do but clearly down on his luck Japanese businessman emerged from the shadows and handed her a wad of cash. The two disappeared down an alleyway, never to be seen again. One can only assume he was putting an end to his miserable life in the most honorable of honorable ways, a prolonged form of hara-kiri involving a dull burning in the crotchetal region that, when left untreated, eventually became unbearable and caused him to perish. His demise was later pointed at as an example in the new-hire orientation at the businessman’s former place of work. “And this is why we never reave the cubicle! You may think you done with work, but you never really done! Just rook what happen to Yanagisawa!”