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    Use "gaudy" in a sentence

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    gaudy


    1. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls


    2. Astride a couple of motor bikes sat a couple of other visitors, rather obvious in matching wraparound sunglasses, identical maroon shorts and gaudy waterproofs; I couldn't help but wonder why they found our van so fascinating


    3. She looked good but not gaudy today, in a white peasant blouse and big colorful skirt, both of a gauzy material, both without underwear


    4. The gaudy sun was high overhead, the air was still and heavy


    5. In that simple state, the expense even of a sovereign is not directed by the vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court, but is employed in bounty to his


    6. occasional gaudy lipstick, yet it could still take her fifteen minutes to get ready to go out


    7. In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court


    8. colour was too gaudy for his taste


    9. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!


    10. The gaudy bandstand, kind of a circular stage in various levels, was in the exact epicenter of the room, where all eyes could see it

    11. From what he could gather, mourning customs, at least among the upper crust, involved a conspicuous display of gaudy colours and extroverted emotions


    12. She let herself fall backwards with her arms stretched out in gaudy playfulness, only to find herself still standing as if she had turned all the way around


    13. Oh no, probably a gaudy corsage of stiff chrysanthemums that will ruin this soft dress


    14. Pick out a gaudy egg of your dreams from his colorful basket and don’t worry


    15. Each of the seven was wearing a big gaudy paper tag with


    16. style, but it was characteristic of the mid-twenties, gaudy


    17. He was once the most worldly of priests, notorious for his gaudy clothes and feasting, but he seems to have interpreted the disaster as a personal message from God


    18. Slowly, the two creatures of the night descended, landing before the gates of a huge, gaudy amusement park called, Coney Island


    19. “Tough out here on your own, eh? We may be garish and gaudy, rude and crude, but we are one, and we still need our main attraction


    20. This is our history, and I won’t sell it to that shark, so he can build another gaudy monument to himself!”

    21. From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of identical size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar’s head


    22. A freak storm came up and he was struck by lightning; right near that horrible, gaudy iron crib


    23. There were pink suits, large sun hats, loud shirts, green trousers, a gaudy sun umbrella, cut off jeans showing about three inches of sagging buttock above pea-stick legs in bovver boots! I couldn’t believe it


    24. Christmas at home always meant bad tempers, relations I had no desire to see, and embarrassment at my Christmas presents which, in our house, were handkerchiefs and underpants wrapped in last year’s gaudy paper


    25. Towards the back of the sunbathers, under a gaudy umbrella, a large woman of indeterminate age fixed her eyes on Sebastian as he sauntered along the edge of the pool and dived in


    26. As he came into the waist the crew thronged about him Zingarans, all of them, half naked, their gaudy silk garments splashed with tar, jewels glinting in ear-rings and dagger-hilts


    27. We watched them trot by, a company of the Emperor’s Hussars in their sharp, gaudy uniforms of blue wool, red accoutrements and silver buttons


    28. In the centre of the community, almost hidden by snow-laden trees, was an unmistakable blue and white Russian Orthodox church, complete with a large onion-shaped cupola and all the intricate but gaudy baroque trappings of a bygone era


    29. The severed finger, gaudy rings in situ, lying on the table next to the small recorder evoked no response


    30. Dressed in the gaudy flower-print shirts so

    31. There arrived with him a rich group of splendid matrons who were protect-ing themselves from the burning sun with gaudy parasols, and wore on their shoulders fine silk kerchiefs, with colored creams on their faces and natural flowers in their hair and golden serpents on their arms and diamonds in their teeth


    32. To the greater disad-vantage of his wife, as she was entering into a sad maturity with her somber long dresses, her old-fashioned medals, and her out-of-place pride, the concubine seemed to be bursting with a second youth, clothed in gaudy dresses of natural silk and with her eyes tiger--striped with a glow of vindication


    33. Proctor said that liberal church leaders associated with that seminary were more enlightened than the many black pastors who revolted him as “given to gaudy dress, unbridled egotism, and self-aggrandizement; they exploited women willing to do anything to be close to the ‘pastor


    34. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude


    35. When he rode the bicycle he would wear acrobat’s tights, gaudy socks, and a Sherlock Holmes cap, but when he was on foot he would dress in a spotless natural linen suit, white shoes, a silk bow tie, a straw boater, and he would carry a willow stick in his hand


    36. We passed another cinema that was so covered in gaudy posters


    37. The lettering on their sides read “Maxwell and Sundberg’s Flying Circus,” in gaudy, but badly faded colors


    38. It had lost its true color long ago, fading to a gaudy lime


    39. The shop window was full of the most unpleasant china ornaments, while inside were rows of gold chains, very gaudy bangles and, on Leo Mutasa’s first visit, a number of Ukrainian United Nations soldiers, no doubt buying gifts for their local girlfriends


    40. Maybe the saving grace was the insertions for wife-swapping that seemed genuine for they were all about give and take; but then, wasn’t he rendered a hors de combat for he lacked the means for a quid pro quo? What about Vimala, he thought as he recalled that evening when he was led into a lounge of a mansion where he found a score of whores in awkward postures, and as he turned his back on the gaudy dames in disgust, one lissome lass in a Turkish towel walked in

    41. ” James said suddenly, looking up at the gaudy chandelier


    42. ” Caramarin hurried up the steps and into the gaudy world inside


    43. collection, a few boxes of gaudy fliers for a night club stood on a table, rolls of posters stacked next to a photocopier


    44. Over calmer water, gaudy sails a-trimming


    45. Grand illusions sparkling off the gaudy baubles it admires,


    46. Petra stared at the fortuneteller’s tent – silky curtains, beaded strings, the faint aroma of vanilla, a gaudy riot of color


    47. son, or the ones they have are too gaudy for my tastes--


    48. To the Spanish Coke commercial that sells coke by asking the question: “How many people will come to your funeral?” Showing a parade of professional actors following a funeral hearse painted in gaudy colors… only to run the hearse along with the coffin in it, off a pier into the ocean: when suddenly a giant fish leaps up and swallows the hearse with the dead body inside it before it can hit the water: this is a regression that goes so far back into the mists of primordial Time it is incredible… back to a Time when giant reptilian aquatic monsters regularly killed and ate anything that moved on the land or flew in the air… just as reptilian fish today still leap out of the water and swallow insects: equating the dead corpse of a human and the hearse carrying it as the shell of an insect, as an insect to be eaten by some undead reptilian monster


    49. looked at the myriad of gaudy swinging signs


    50. It was the most gaudy sight either man had ever encountered in life






























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    Synonyms for "gaudy"

    gaudy flashy jazzy showy sporty brassy cheap flash garish gimcrack loud meretricious tacky tatty tawdry trashy

    "gaudy" definitions

    (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college


    tastelessly showy


    (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display