retro vs tawdry

retro

noun
  • Past fashions or trends. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were. 

  • Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto. 

tawdry

adj
  • Cheap and gaudy; showy. 

  • Unseemly, base, shameful. 

How often have the words retro and tawdry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )