tawdry adj.
cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also : ignoble
showy or gaudy but without real value 俗丽的; 华而不实的
intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality: tawdry jewellery
involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive: a tawdry affair / scandal[@more@]Example sentence:
Tom and Pam found themselves in an unfamiliar section of the city, walking by tawdry storefronts (a room at the front of a shop/store) and shady bars.
Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.