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gaudily

[ UK /ɡˈɔːdɪli/ ]
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  1. in a tastelessly garish manner
    the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers

How To Use gaudily In A Sentence

  • After a few moments of this, the crowd parted to allow a gaudily dressed fellow with golden eyeglasses looped around his neck to approach me.
  • Gaudily attired tribespeople wander through market places selling hand-made embroidery, while conical-hatted workers labour in the rice paddies clinging to the lush hillsides.
  • So I bought Ganesh, about a foot high, gaudily painted in blue and purple, with gold highlights; and a yellow patterned umbrella, shaped like a pillbox hat.
  • Though I rather like my visual of gaudily-clad older ladies with horn-rimmed glasses and pink bouffants, who run in circles ‘round each other while screaming.
  • A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer. She Closed Her Eyes
  • A wooden target with one or two darts sticking in it hung on the end wall and invited the Robin Hoods of the village to try their skill; a system of incised marks on the oaken table made sinister suggestions of shove-halfpenny; and a large open box filled with white wigs, gaudily colored robes and wooden spears, swords and regalia, crudely coated with gilded paper, obviously appertained to the puerile ceremonials of the Order of Druids. The Eye of Osiris
  • We swung out of the bazaar, weaved through the rickshaws and donkey carts and the gaudily decorated buses and headed West.
  • It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • There were the gaudily plumed roseate spoonbills, their bright pink feathers glowing when they passed between my hide and the rising sun.
  • To summarize:Petrushka "Petey" is the story of three puppets - the forlorn and homely Petrushka, a beautiful ballerina, and a mysterious and gaudily dressed Moor - brought to life by their showman master at a Russian Shrovetide fair. Petrushka
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