gaudy

[US]/ˈɡɔːdi/
[UK]/ˈɡɔːdi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. flashy; showy; tastelessly colorful; ostentatiously bright; extravagantly ornate; glaring

Example Sentences

garish makeup.See Synonyms at gaudy 1

silver bows and gaudy ribbons.

meretricious ornamentation.See Synonyms at gaudy 1

strident, screeching brakes. See also Synonyms at gaudy 1 soft

She was tricked out in gaudy dress.

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much , by gaudy attire.

Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.

There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too.

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity ose much by gaudy attire. —— Zimmermann Willhelm, German diplomat

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