Rococo vs Tawdry - What's the difference?
rococo | tawdry |
A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
Of, or relating to the rococo style.
Over-elaborate or complicated.
Old-fashioned.
Cheap and gaudy; showy.
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* 1917 , , Calvary Alley , ch. 20:
Unseemly, base, shameful.
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* 1920 , , The Great Impersonation , ch. 16:
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As a noun rococo
is rococo or rococo can be rococo.As an adjective tawdry is
cheap and gaudy; showy.rococo
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(wikipedia rococo) (-)Adjective
(-)tawdry
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(er)- The rest of his dress—a dress always sufficiently tawdry —was overcharged with lace, embroidery, and ornament of every kind, and the plume of feathers which he wore was so high, as if intended to sweep the roof of the hall.
- It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry , from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns.
- [T]he "greaser" was a dirty, idle, shiftless, treacherous, tawdry vagabond, dwelling in a disgracefully primitive house, and backward in every aspect of civilization.
- The woman's passion by his side seemed suddenly tawdry and unreal, the seeking of her lips for his something horrible.
Lusty Lies of Don Juan John," New York Post (retrieved 16 Dec 2013):
- After months of flat-out lying to the public, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally copped to having a sleazy extramarital fling. . . . The tawdry affair has dogged Edwards over the past few months.