How To Use Gaudy In A Sentence

At night it is gaudy with Japanese lanterns and Mexican music.
And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
It was a strip of gaudy landscaping in front of a strip mall in glaring bright daylight.
They all are fans of the hybridized glads, confused by the pretty pictures shown in catalogs and on bag tags of masses of gaudy colorful clown like flowers. Monday Report « Fairegarden
FLYFISHING King salmon (chinooks) require stout fly tackle — 9 - to 10-weight rods with sinking-tip lines, heavy leaders, and large, gaudy flies. How to Plan A Fishing Trip to Alaska

Food stalls and shops, the buildings made of the same porcelainlike material as the farmhouse, in gaudy primary colors. Spin
There were days when one was wearing heavy, gaudy clothing, which was invariably a pain to be endured considering the gathering one would be amongst.
The gaudy decorations are out, the over sized Yuletide props have been forklifted into position by underpaid migrant workers, and the same CD played at this time every year since 1989 can be heard tinkling through the mall.
On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery. Westward Ho!
Behind all the hysterical and gaudy obloquy is the suspicion that each could have been everything he ever promised he would be - and, in the common imagination, still can be.
The gaudy tanagers, that cannot be tamed -- the noisy lories, the resplendent trogons, the toucans with their huge clumsy bills, and the tiny bee-birds (the _trochili_ and _colibri_) -- all glance through the sunny vistas. The Rifle Rangers
Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. Virginity
crossbill" with its deep crimson colour; and many others, equally bright and beautiful, enlivened the woods, either with their voice or their gaudy plumage. Popular Adventure Tales
The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements. American Grace
They are very strong but not gaudy, colours like terracotta, green and yellow.
E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York. The Five of Hearts
You nod and smile with every paragraph, and wish the story would unroll into a novel, breaking the boundaries of the book, streaming in gaudy tapestries, out through the door and into the blue wide yonder - to the place where awards are distributed and happy critics fall over themselves to lavish praise (this story did not win any awards, by the way) Why am I so excited about this? "Constellations", ed. by Peter Crowther
When seen plain, they seem far too gaudy for birds of an English garden. Times, Sunday Times
It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that he's wearing mismatched, gaudy socks.
Absentees had just returned from the coast, and the youths were brave in their gaudy bedizenment, their new barsatis, their soharis, and long cloths of bright new kaniki, with which they had adorned themselves behind some bush before they had suddenly appeared dressed in all this finery. How I Found Livingstone
Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
New owners have stylishly revamped the public areas and the previously gaudy themed rooms, and combined the two names. Times, Sunday Times
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
Egyptian scarabaei were perched on an Alpine mountain; there a clay amphora, of the shape of the Greeks or Romans, was adorned with gaudy plates cut out of fashion magazines. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
In Scotland, the seaside towns tarted up their piers and decked out their main streets good and gaudy.
She stared at the patch of old wallpaper: huge pink and red roses, gaudy, sentimental.
These street riders could be easily distinguished by their gaudy Western-style umbrellas, as contrasted to the slender parasols which female students often carried.
The sets were shoddy, the costumes gaudy and sometimes absurd, and the music inappropriate.
Lapidus became notorious in the 1950s, an era that liked its modernism discreet, for flamboyant hotel designs that were often called gaudy, garish, splashy and colossal.
But no sooner did he declare himself in form, than the gaudy wretch, as he was before with her, became a well-dressed gentleman; — the chattering magpie (for he talks and laughs much), quite conversable, and has something agreeable to say upon every subject. Pamela
They are gaudy diurnal insects with scaled wings that are large in proportion to body.
The beautiful lion fish belongs to this gaudy category and is therefore much easier to avoid.
There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian. The Crossing
Above the club's gaudy neon entrance, there were spotlights, which were aimed at the cube. CHAMELEON
For years, men have been bombarded with low-cut bumsters, gaudy tracksuits and blinged-up denims.
The dread Phenokrike of the Siberian Shamans caught my eye in its gaudy leatherwork folio. Perquampi
They progressed from the gaudy sateen of the Sun King's court to a stunning scene straight from Strauss's old Vienna for the wedding, with everyone dressed in white, off-the-shoulder ball gowns or elegant tie and black tailcoats.
The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements. American Grace
In fact, it would seem to be quite the reverse: Gaudy males should be more conspicuous to their enemies.
Potted hippeastrums (amaryllis) are wonderful gaudy things, but don't overwater them. Times, Sunday Times
It's just a bit too large ( small, plain, gaudy, etc ) for me.
A vision not completely incongruous with the streets; a small European-looking boy with worn-out boots, carrying a large hand-woven bag of gaudy colors advertising Cuernavaca. The Calling
The gaudy Spanish bluebell is rapidly overtaking the native variety. Times, Sunday Times
Long ago ‘elegant’ was turned from a word denoting the essence of refinement and beauty, into gaudy trumpery.
She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns. Chapter 7
Paint and tattoos adorned bodies sometimes naked, oftener wrapped in a dyed woolen kilt-a sort of primitive himation-or attired in breeches and perhaps a tunic of gaudy hues. The Boat of a Million Years
And that's what it's all about, remember: putting the brakes on gaudy consumerism.
She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns. Chapter 7
It's organic, it's witty, it's nasty, it's gaudy, it takes a tattered sheet of reality and darns the holes with glittering thread. Namedropper
Lavishness lives on among the audience members, whose gaudy fashion sense the evening I attended was in stern defiance of Mr. Zapatero's plan de austeridad. In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
Leaning against the wall she reached forward to pull the vertical blinds apart, her eyes perusing the gaudy blues, pinks and yellows of the buzzing neon signboards that seemed to reproduce overnight along the strip.
We began by trying not to be London style snobs, to keep our metropolitan insouciance zipped, but the sheer volume, the boundless gaudy vulgarity of it, overwhelms you, and you just have to howl with derision.
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
During the tour, the press vilified the rockers as bad-mouthed, loud, gaudy and unkempt.
There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles. Paragraphs On Conceptual Writing : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
With a whole new series of wallpapers and floors in leopard-print and fake gold, you can decorate your brothel to give it that gaudy, tawdry look that will have the punters coming back for more.
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt.
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
During the Christmas festival each one is adorned with decorations, but not gaudy lights and tinsel.
The wallpaper around them was a textured red with speckles of gold, but a gaudy look was avoided with the neutral silk, cream bedspreads, pillowcases and curtains.
This movie is loud, gaudy, underacted, and completely without a soul.
My family members give me gifts of tacky, gaudy trinkets that I have no use for.
In her room Enid has a backlit faux stained-glass panorama of waterfalls and woods, gaudy, like something in a bad restaurant.
New owners have stylishly revamped the public areas and the previously gaudy themed rooms, and combined the two names. Times, Sunday Times
A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.
Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly?
Instead of gondolas, there are magenta-coloured barges which transport tourists along a two-mile stretch of river, past the native cypresses and gaudy glass-fronted hotels.
A gaudy dresser who at one point favored gold satin shirts, gold velvet ties and a purple doeskin suit, Tynan burst into journalism at a young age and later served as literary manager for Britain's renowned National Theatre. A challenging role for a complex thespian
Lola herself has doffed her shabby robe and is wearing a gaudy dress patterned with large flowers.
Poems that make us love this gaudy, mother-scented, mud-bedaubed language of ours. Mental multivitamin
The gem's usual glow and hum was dead, and it looked to be nothing more than a piece of old, tasteless, gaudy jewelry.
At closer quarters they are seen to be very gaudy birds. Times, Sunday Times
Cocoa-nut trees fringe the river bank for some distance, and there are some large, spreading trees loaded with the largest and showiest crimson blossoms I ever saw, throwing even the gaudy Poinciana regia into the shade; but nothing can look very attractive here, with the swamp in front and the jungle behind, where the rhinoceros is said to roam undisturbed. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The riotous colors and designs celebrate different fiestas ... white pompoms and streamers for the church, and for birthdays, big earthenware jars dressed in gaudy colors. The Colored Paper Affair
Weak sunlight made the globes and minarets glow gingery-gold; the palm trees lining the walkways drooped like broken umbrellas, strings of red flags hanging between them like gaudy washing lines. Skiing in Turkey: a long way from St Anton
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
For women, while they paint, perfume, and adorn themselves with jewels and purple robes, are accounted gaudy and profuse; yet nobody will find fault with them for washing their faces, anointing themselves, or platting their hair. Essays and Miscellanies
Mrs.X. and you occupy a very light bed, which has a tall canopy of red "percale;" the windows are smartly draped with cheap gaudy calicoes and muslins; there are little mean strips of carpet about the tiled floor of the room, and yet all seems as gay and as comfortable as may be -- the sun shines brighter than you have seen it for a year, the sky is a thousand times bluer, and what a cheery clatter of shrill quick French voices comes up from the court-yard under the windows! The Paris Sketch Book
However much she may enjoy their gaudy nights, she is less enamoured of him by day: one of Cattrall's best moments is her look of disgusted horror when the defeated Antony, burying himself in her lap, jeopardises her possible alliance with Caesar by ordering his messenger to be whipped. Antony and Cleopatra - review
Like a bloom-outlined vegetable bed, the goldenrod and ironwort, in gaudy border, filled the fence corners of the big fields. Moths of the Limberlost
Who knew dated music, predictable gags, audience participation, gaudy costumes and blinding colours could be this much fun?
a gaudy costume
Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
Verily this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt. The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages
She smelled of cheap perfume and wore gaudy clothing and fake costume jewellery.
He did occasional odd jobs, puttered with fruitless inventions, commented wryly on the gaudy events of the day, botanized, talked with his father, wrote a few articles, and looked for a job. The Worldly Philosophers
These damsels, in gaudy garments of emerald green, bright rose, and flaming yellow, were squatting outside their cabins or lounging unveiled about the thresholds of two or three dismal dens of cafés in the market-place. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Later it is explained to you that simple designs are more the persons style so you return the ‘gaudy’ ring for the simple solitaire.
Her dress was often very gaudy, with bright colors, and a sense of fashion that followed too closely behind fads.
Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event.
Is this an authentic moment of historic liberation for Europe, or just another imperial imperative dressed up in the gaudy rags of consumerism?
Bollywood fashions are no longer regarded as gaudy or unstylish, because there's top talent working behind the scenes.
Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way.
And I appreheud that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
The Praetorian praefect, the praefect of Rome, the quaestor, the master of the offices, with the public and patrimonial treasurers, * whose functions are painted in gaudy colors by the rhetoric of Cassiodorus, still continued to act as the ministers of state. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The "cardinal grosbeak" (_Pitylus cardinalis_) with his bright scarlet wings; the blue jay, noisy and chattering; the rarer "crossbill" (_Loxia_) with its deep crimson colour; and many others, equally bright and beautiful, enlivened the woods, either with their voice or their gaudy plumage. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
The long curved counter glistens under the flare of the gas; the lines of gaudy bottles gleam like vulgar, sham jewelry; the glare, the glitter, the garish refulgence of the place dazzle the eye, and the sharp acrid whiffs of vile odour fall on the senses with a kind of mephitic influence. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
There were a few people, however, who had on very gaudy, expensive clothing of bright colors.
The gangster's possessions are central to his being; he owns things in a gaudy, exhibitionistic way.
Forget gaudy polka-dot dresses and long ruffled trains. Times, Sunday Times
His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous.
Unlimited venture capitalism rode in gaudy style down streets lined with beggars showing off their sores and wounds. Times, Sunday Times
The earliest performances of kabuki were dancing and song with no significant plot, often disdained as gaudy and cacophonous, but equally lauded as colorful and beautiful.
They would show Russian army paybooks, an officer's gaudy epaulette, boxes of almost unstrikable Estonian matches, buttons, cap-badges. KARA KUSH
He wore his guilt like a piece of gaudy jewelry, bright and flashy and probably fake.
By the canons of classical taste, they were gaudy.
And the gaudy baroque of his ‘Costume Jewelry’ series foreshadows the aggrandized odds and ends of the Still Lifes to come.
Unlimited venture capitalism rode in gaudy style down streets lined with beggars showing off their sores and wounds. Times, Sunday Times
Waterfowl, such as the gaudy mandarin duck, no longer nest in its wetlands; fish have been driven upriver or out to sea, or have gone extinct.
Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
The dining-room, opposite, was equally loud and gaudy - mirrors everywhere, and a vast chandelier over the dining room table.
This isn't really relevant to what I'm trying to get at here except in that it points out the age-related stuff that awaits us all as we approach the nether gate with the gaudy wreaths and the portrait photograph we didn't like in life.
Often, those makeovers are really just incredibly tacky - I mean, not in a gaudy way, but they're just kind of unfulfilling and unsubstantial. Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House'
They have been replaced by itinerants, travelling in big American pick-ups towing huge, gaudy modern caravans.
The catch, as I recall, was mostly insects: dragonflies, big fat cicadas, the gaudy but klutzy grasshoppers called lubbers, or Georgia thumpers. The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
Its more modern decor can be classified as quite gaudy.
It glorifies the city in images of sublime architecture and gaudy residents. Times, Sunday Times
But there, behind that gaudy, fantastical temple stood a line of monoliths.
Now, gaudy flowers crowd the brooks - paintbrush, gentian, columbine.
Music Voice over Many cottage gardeners avoid brilliant colours, fearing they look too gaudy.
It often seems to me that Ukrainians have a distinctive immunity that protects them from the gaudy attractions of fashionable trends.
As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant. Clarissa Harlowe
But they don't moan, because it's not that big a deal; they simply don their gaudy rags and their dancing shoes and get on with it.
The chancel was gaudy with color - white and red poinsettia, the lush green of their leaves. FAMILY PICTURES
Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
The vista is unblemished by gaudy advertising signs, utility lines or parked vehicles.
Under the bangs of a Dynel doll wig a "floozy" with nasolabial folds, male facial features and leathery skin mugs for the camera -- coquettish hair bow, mod sunglasses and gaudy plastic jewelry adorning her "look. Do You Suffer from Eyebrow Plucking Disease? Divorce?
Forget gaudy polka-dot dresses and long ruffled trains. Times, Sunday Times
And I apprehend that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
Well, me and the wife went to Ocean Finance to buy some new furniture to replace this gaudy tat.
Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long.
Prices invariably start at Rs.500 and that is probably for a gaudy or a beady look on a slipper.
So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
An impression of paint, varnish, and carpentry was in the air; a gaudy new burgee fluttered aloft; there seemed to be a new rope or two, especially round the diminutive mizzen-mast, which itself looked altogether new. The Riddle of the Sands
He'll flirt with gaudy science-fiction spectacles and then, at the last moment, back away.
Bender's fiction accepts those constraints and relates decidedly familiar stories dressed up in gaudy but cheap disguises. Experimental Fiction
Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
The odds were amazingly against me finding a hat I would ever wear again, because as you may recall, these retailers specialize in beachwear that makes the word gaudy hang its head in shame. Branding a country: How the Bahamiam logo sinks Margaritaville’s pirate ship « The Retort
Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow.
Take, for example, the non-conformist Enid, who delights in wearing retro tortoiseshell specs, thrift-store garb and gaudy lipstick and despises all around her.
Huge amounts of make-up are slapped on over their deep tans and what they are wearing is bright, gaudy and outrageous. The Sun
Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years. Philip Roth gives novel a quarter of a century
Critics say it's tacky, noisy, and stuck in a time warp, those of us who love it agree with all that, that's what it's all about, being big, brash, gaudy and over the top.
Her father on the other hand hired men pretentiously called gardeners and they did plant special trees and gaudy bushes, all of which usually soon died, but were easily recognized as being the same guys who did freelance masonry, housepainting, and roofing, and on Friday nights played cards with their employer. The Houseguest
Plant species from the Asteraceae or daisy family such as gaillardia, cosmos, coreopsis and beach sunflower as well as ornamental grasses, and allow the flowers to go to seed to attract these gaudy birds to your landscape. Tcpalm.com Stories
The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note -- which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place. Then I'll Come Back to You
Gone are some of the more gaudy touches - his spandex and somewhat slightly less moppy hair have been replaced by simple jeans with a T-shirt.
We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
Somewhere between the gaudy lowlands of kitsch and the earnest highlands of world music sits the mythic, mixed-up realm of exotica.
He had a 19-win breakout season last year, finally fulfilling the gaudy projections that had followed him almost since he signed as a 16-year-old in 2002. On deck: Major Leagues' team of the next decade (2010-19)
Even when they are monumental in size, gaudy and glittering, they are also duplicable and, most importantly, they are mutable.
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
I needn't have worried; when I'd done, she sat for a moment, fingering the tassels on her gaudy bedgown, and then says: Isabelle
The gaudy maps they passed around at the Spanish court—vast waters with pictures of sea serpents smiling ominously in the waves, weird configurations of terra incognita promising cities strewn with gems, countries populated by Amazons or anthropophagi or talking animals—translated into nothing more than pretty beaches and bad-tempered inhabitants with very sharp arrows. Dream State
Autumn is a season for spectacle, made all the more gaudy by the imminent approach of winter.
I loved the atmosphere, the sheer tacky, gaudy, exuberance of it all.
Here, flowers grew in riotous colors and gaudy abundance, and Phoebe made a fragrant pink and white wreath of orchidlike blossoms to wear in her hair. Pirates
Some clowns prefer to wear bright and gaudy makeup, while others have a fondness for ludicrous masks.
moralized" under their tuition; architecture adopted the baroque style, gaudy and insincere. The Age of the Reformation
Unlimited venture capitalism rode in gaudy style down streets lined with beggars showing off their sores and wounds. Times, Sunday Times
Its frontage gleams with neon, and above the gaudy porch is a statue of a four-horsed laurel-wreathed charioteer, his spear raised phallically into the dull London sky.
We'd be peaceful enthusiasts, free from the allure of gaudy knick-knacks forged from the fossils' ooze and eager for self-surrender. Charles Redfern: Puff And Bluster At Armageddon
Frail ghost of the gaudy raggle-taggle that you were- Archive 2009-01-01
There's a gaudy graphic showing the effluvia of toxic gunk that's left behind by a dead chicken. Times, Sunday Times
On another level, Paul's gaudy taste deliberately mocks bigoted expectations that blacks will ‘go in for loud colors’ because his flamboyance both flaunts his racial identification and burlesques it at the same time.
There's a tendency today to make hot hatchbacks extremely fast and large and gaudy. Times, Sunday Times
I understood that the god of the Gentiles was no better than a toy, to be dressed up in gaudy stuffs and carried in processions. The Promised Land
A wife is showing the husband this bathing suit, and he makes a comment about it being gaudy and not liking it.
Up to eighteen inches long, these gaudy fish have large plumes and fleshy flaps on their head that mimic colourful reef growth.
Gaudy emporiums offer massage, model 'faeries' and crystals. Times, Sunday Times
And having a gaudy mausoleum is not an impeachable offense. Matthew Yglesias » Darrel Thompson Sure Can Quit Burris
Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
I pulled a pair of gaudy, heart-shaped glasses off the rack.
She was a moderately young woman with long fair hair twining around a gaudy hairpin.
Its main mission: to show the world that not all Westchester women just lounge around their extravagant homes, drape themselves in gaudy gowns and dote on their privileged children. Reality-TV Dreaming
the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade
He examined the group again and saw that grown men and women who dress up in padded bike shorts, gaudy polyester shirts, little fingerless gloves, and silly helmets shaped like insect heads are probably not going to be rigid bluenoses.
They made ‘gaudy’ visual innovations - the heroic stance, the abstract element in comic art, psychedelic graphic design, bold use of color.
A McMansion generally refers to a gaudy, oversize, spanking-new dwelling situated on a piece of land that can barely contain its size, the unfortunate result being that most McMansions stand cheek-to-jowl with their next door neighbors. What Women Want
Spectacular elements it had to some extent, -- gaudy, though inappropriate, costumes, and stately processions across the stage; but no careful imitation of the actual facts of life, no illusion of reality in the representment, could possibly be effected. The Theory of the Theatre
The chieftain laid in uniforms of his own designing, and strolled about the Grande Rue de Péra, gaudy in a Turkish military fez, white ducks and gloves, and a blue coat beplastered with gold lace. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
But they don't moan, because it's not that big a deal; they simply don their gaudy rags and their dancing shoes and get on with it.
The gaudy, bacchanalian atmosphere of the late Nineties coincided with the biggest boom in Wall Street's history and, after the collapse of various high-profile stocks, people seemed to sober up a bit.
Credible complexity in a character can be achieved in at least two ways: Either distinctiveness is a matter of the sometimes gaudy and eye-catching methods of personality -- stark red hair, deep sag to the breast, the tortured lisp of the poorly born -- or it can be a presentation of the sometimes invisible but momentously significant suasions that inhabit us all -- the '' not-thought in thought, the unseen in the visible, the places into which the imagination must reach. Comedy in Literature
One Baptist minister, Stuart Davison, from Merseyside, for instance, is renowned for his collection of gaudy waistcoats and jazzy ties.
She tried to maneuver him to a dumpy sofa studded with a gaudy pattern of crimson roses, but Jack stiffened his knees.
But so gaudy a style made her look like a pampered odalisque rather than the mother of the future king.
Argentorat. 1537, in fol.,) his gaudy and cumbersoms robes are stuck with many false jewels. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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