How much of the work of city and state government is tarnished by tawdry graft?
But for every tawdry story, happy ones flood the conference rooms of the DEMA convention.
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The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.
Lillehei's 1973 trial exposed the tawdry side of the brilliant surgeon, who was married with four children.
The piece presents a tawdry taxonomy of the sad and self-deluded types struggling to make music without starving.
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That creates a lot of interest in Mr Burrell's tawdry tales, far outweighing the merits of their content.
Frazetta's wild cover art--fantastic, sensuous, a bit tawdry--moved paperbacks that previously had languished.
"Like printing tawdry pics of (Catherine) Middleton -- lowbrow rating booster, " she said.
Shops are tawdry, selling nail services, wigs, discount clothes and (ominously) pagers and beepers, tools of the drugs trade.
One reason is that they and other tourists bring in their wake tawdry souvenir shops and fast-food restaurant chains.
The worst moments of the year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career.
Authorities say she planned the attack on Travis Alexander in a jealous rage after he wanted to end their tawdry affair.
After years on the job, they see nothing sinister, tawdry or demeaning about their occupation and consider their lives quite normal.
Some of this is fitfully amusing, but a loving re-creation of something tawdry is not all that different from the original.
It's hard to remember that in the early 1930s libraries banned these books as tawdry and sensationalist distractions from real literature.
You could upgrade your memory, your phone, or of course your tawdry -- and frankly outdated -- hillbilly band.
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Functionality, thrift and good taste are better long-term value propositions than showbiz glitz, which has made the Windsor image tawdry and volatile.
Season V began on a wrong note with a tawdry Bollywood song-and-dance opening show which even appears to have put off fans.
One quick look at dating advice sites and one finds stressed-out lovers looking for advice on dirty emails, tawdry Facebook exchanges and lewd SMSes.
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And many voters, especially in Mr Rudd's crucial home state of Queensland, still disapprove of the tawdry way Labor bosses switched horses in mid-stream.
The story of poor-girl-makes-good was never quite straight, the fame never without its tawdry side, the money never reliably there, the behaviour rarely unembarrassing.
The Chuan-1 government, as it is known locally, fell in 1995 over a tawdry land scandal that did not directly impinge on the dynamic duo.
And, against all previous experience of Mr Berlusconi's tawdry governments, many people still want to believe in the magic that made him Italy's richest man.
Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare.
Despite all the obvious, common-sense issues (incompetence, conflict of interest, past performance) Congress is turning a blind eye to this tawdry corner of the financial services industry.
This is what the public and the news media lamenting the fall of the brilliant hero undone by a tawdry affair have failed to see.
While I think that would be a catastrophically terrible decision, I nevertheless wanted to share with you an example of that muck that gives the whole social-media world a tawdry reputation.
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Just when it seemed as though Newt Gingrich had revealed all the skeletons in his closet two ex- wives, several affairs, and various tawdry episodes of cheating another scandal hit.
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