gaudy
IPA: gˈɔdi
noun
- (archaic) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- (Oxford University) A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
adjective
- Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
- (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.
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Examples of "gaudy" in Sentences
- There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles.
- Bender's fiction accepts those constraints and relates decidedly familiar stories dressed up in gaudy but cheap disguises.
- 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 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 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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?
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