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• She was all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.From the entry trap
• On the end is a monster spoon-hook, gaily ornamented with gaudy feathers.2010, Nick Lyons, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, page 143. From the entry spoon-hook
• His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws.1989 May, Dennis Brown, The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation, London: Palgrave…. From the entry unhungrily
• Little groups of sailors came swinging along and pushied their way noisily inside the gaudy joints.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer. From the entry neap
• Gaudy fungi sprouted from the bark walls of the humpies, which were furred with green slime.1934, Brian Penton, chapter 18, in Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton, published 2006, page 120. From the entry ant-bed
• Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4. From the entry lipped
• Instead of gaudy coloring, there is a harmony of subdued tints.1911, Luigi Bogliolo, The Los Angeles Daily Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 2. From the entry overexcess
• He sat on a cushioned bench and slipped his feet into a pair of gaudy but fashionable pigaches.2013, T. H. Lain, The Death Ray, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN. From the entry pigache
• Evans hired Crane primarily for covers for "yellow-backs" or "mustard plaisters," cheap railway fiction issued in gaudy yellow-papered boards.1981, American Book Collector, volume 2, page 3. From the entry mustard plaister
• It sounds prettily; and is, in parts, very carefully and mystically wrapped up in the gaudy envelope of poetical patchery.1978, Derek Roper, Reviewing Before the Edinburgh 1788-1802, University of Delaware Press, page 281. From the entry patchery
• Light flooded the small living-room, with its rope flooring, utility chairs and tables, electric storage heater, and gaudy red bawneen curtains.1973, John Broderick, An Apology for Roses, Calder & Boyars, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry living-room
• This bemirrored hotel, this gaudy palace — home.1900, Jack London, The End of the Chapter. From the entry bemirrored
• They had closed up their hanky-panks, grab-joints, pitch-and-dunks, pokerino parlours, had turned off the lights and killed the music and folded up the gaudy glamour.2012, Dean Koontz, Twilight Eyes, →ISBN. From the entry hanky-pank
• A gaudy grotto of blocked canvas huefully painted — green serpents with flame eyes, rosy, bustious nymphs caught athwart aggressive fish tails.1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional. From the entry huefully
• Skeptical postmodernists may have reduced the certainties of Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back.1998 October 15, Tony Karon, “Postmodern Papacy?”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2016. From the entry get thee behind me
• Police Launch No. 32 sliced through the murky gray-green waters of Aberdeen, navigating the narrow path between fishing junks, sampan taxis and the gaudy Jumbo floating seafood restaurant.1997 May 4, Keith B. Richburg, “China to Buttress Hong Kong Police -- but to What End?”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Washington…. From the entry Aberdeen
• “‘What are the gaieties of the Rich, the splendours of the Powerful, what is the pride of the Great, what are the gaudy pleasures of High Society?’”1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter II, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry high society
• It was not, however, among the verbs and adjectives that the American word-coiners of the first half of the century achieved their gaudiest innovations, but among the substantives.1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language, New York: Knopf, Chapter 3, §3, p. 80. From the entry coiner
• Rich, not gaudy, is the idea of the whole scheme, and its success is manifest to one who compares the general effect with that seen in most playhouses.1911, Luigi Bogliolo, The Los Angeles Daily Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 2. From the entry overexcess
• Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah, page 3. From the entry angst

Meaning of gaudy

1. adjective Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
2. adjective Fun; merry; festive.
3. noun One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

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How do you use gaudy in a sentence?

Gaudy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.”

What is a short sentence with gaudy?

“This bemirrored hotel, this gaudy palace — home.”

What does gaudy mean?

Gaudy means very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.