Thesaurus / gaudy
other words for gaudy
MOST RELEVANT
- brilliant
- flashy
- garish
- jazzy
- ostentatious
- showy
- snazzy
- splashy
- chichi
- crude
- gay
- gross
- pizzazz
- screaming
- tinsel
- blatant
- brazen
- catchpenny
- chintzy
- coarse
- flaunting
- florid
- frou-frou
- glaring
- gussied up
- kitschy
- loud
- meretricious
- obtrusive
- pretentious
- putting on the ritz
- raffish
- ritzy
- splendiferous
- tasteless
- tawdry
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Batterby, in gaudy raiment, went to an office in Manchester; in gaudier raiment he often attended race meetings.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Not even in Agra, and certainly not in gaudy Lucknow, had Malcolm seen any structure of such striking architectural effect.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
She laughed at the comedy and wept—she and the gaudy woman next to her wept over the tragedy.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
We got Fanny a dress on the sly, gaudy black velvet and Duchesse lace.
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The object was to show Belle that gaudy valley of the Vaisigano which the road follows.
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And when I took a ticket for a raffle, I hardly counted upon winning this particularly gaudy sofa-cushion.
Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
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In a scarf of brilliant and gaudy tint he wore a large pin in the form of a horseshoe, with imitation brilliants in it.
THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOATRUEL PERLEY SMITH
Really, many of the flies from the tackle shops look neat and gaudy enough, but like Hodge's razors, are they not made to sell?
THE TEESDALE ANGLERR LAKELAND
WORDS RELATED TO GAUDY
- absurd
- bizarre
- costly
- crazy
- exaggerated
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expensive
- extortionate
- extreme
- fanciful
- fancy
- fantastic
- flamboyant
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiose
- immoderate
- implausible
- improvident
- imprudent
- inordinate
- lavish
- ludicrous
- nonsensical
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outrageous
- overpriced
- preposterous
- pretentious
- prodigal
- profligate
- reckless
- ridiculous
- showy
- silly
- spendthrift
- steep
- unbalanced
- unconscionable
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
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