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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

WOLF: Tawdry details of Obamacare - Washington Times

WOLF: Tawdry details of Obamacare - Washington Times
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  1. gk68February 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that, ‘If a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’”

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  2. gk68February 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    taw·dry (tôdr)
    adj. taw·dri·er, taw·dri·est
    1. Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. See Synonyms at gaudy1.
    2. Shameful or indecent: tawdry secrets.
    n.
    Cheap and gaudy finery.
    [From tawdry lace, lace necktie, alteration of Saint Audrey's lace (sold at the annual Saint Audrey's fair, Ely, England), after Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda), queen of Northumbria, who died in 679 of a throat tumor, supposedly because she delighted in fancy necklaces as a young woman.]
    tawdri·ly adv.
    tawdri·ness n.


    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
    tawdry [ˈtɔːdrɪ]
    adj -drier, -driest
    cheap, showy, and of poor quality tawdry jewellery
    [C16 tawdry lace, shortened and altered from Seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey (Etheldrida), 7th-century queen of Northumbria and patron saint of Ely, Cambridgeshire]
    tawdrily adv
    tawdriness n

    Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
    ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words AntonymsAdj. 1. tawdry - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
    flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy, brassy, cheap
    tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
    2. tawdry - cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
    cheapjack, shoddy
    inferior - of low or inferior quality

    Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
    tawdry
    adjective vulgar, cheap, tacky (informal), flashy, tasteless, plastic (slang), glittering, naff (Brit. slang), gaudy, tatty, showy, tinsel, raffish, gimcrack, meretricious, tinselly, cheap-jack (informal) tawdry jewellery
    elegant, stylish, tasteful, simple, plain, refined, graceful, well-tailored, unostentatious, unflashy

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