The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAWDRY
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More clues leading to the result TAWDRY
- Initially trite and wholly uninteresting, becoming cheap and tacky
- Poor quality marble, lacking interest
- Tasteless cheers, prohibitionist drinking whisky
- Gaudy temple set up with uninteresting foundation
- Cheers! Prohibitionist drinking whisky — it’s just for show
- Cheap marble’s dull
- Showy marble protected from the elements?
- Showy girl reportedly after bit of tat
- Attempt to block a word extremely vulgar
- Central cutaway, dull base
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The straight part
We know that "Poor quality" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case poor quality = tawdry.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TAWDRY mean?
TAWDRY noun- Tawdry lace.
- Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
- (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
- (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.