gaudy

In the land of the living, Heiyahas fully come into her own and is fashion-forward, adorned with gaudy jewelry, along with a denim jacket and miniskirt.

The writer Morrow Mayo seldom minced words, especially when his subject was the gaudy, tawdry city where he made his home in the 1920s and 1930s.

Real money announces itself by being the gaudiest in any room.

It does not seek the new, but demands endless repetition of the same themes, merely with greater elaboration, gaudier technical effects and greater expense.

While the author does state that these cakes require “skill, artistry, and impressive amounts of labor to create,” she’s quick to trash them as “gaudy, boring, and somewhat infantilizing.”