gaudy

Across the courtyard in another workshop a handful of PoWs are making artificial Christmas trees, gaudy baubles strung from their machines.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Walking around Comic Con, I couldn’t help thinking that dressing up in gaudy costumes wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Some projects have been viewed as gaudy or unnecessary, while others have been applauded by local residents.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The fuss over the gaudy lawn sculpture seemed to delight the President, who suggested he’d maybe make it permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

When all was ready we spread the leaves under the gaudy marriage pandal Nathan had borrowed for the occasion and ate and drank for long, merry hours.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Marshal," said he to Chabannes, "we are told that over the Po yonder is Sir Prosper Colonna, with two thousand horse, in a town called Villafranca, apprehending nought and thinking of nought but gaudies.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black

Crocus and daffodil and violet, Pink, primrose, valley-lily, clove-carnation, Red rose and white rose, wall-flower, mignonette, The daisies all—these be her recreation, Her gaudies these! 

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

The days on which they occur are called gaudies or gaudy days.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

That’s because playing on the same defensive line might clear the biggest roadblock that they have faced stopping them from putting up even gaudier numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

There are other pitchers who have gaudier numbers, including Dodger teammate Tony Gonsolin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

The gaudier semifinal between brawny 12-1 teams, envisioned as a trading of bruises late into the night, didn’t take up much of your night or chew up any of your nerves.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2022

Betsey Johnson made gaudier knock-offs I could combine Macy’s coupons to purchase, and ModCloth often carried novelty bags to match their print dresses and shirt patterns.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2018

But the Elizabethans loved gaudier methods; they liked highly decorative modes of expression, in prose no less than in verse.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

“The Language of Butterflies” is equal parts an ode to the gaudiest of insects—a tribute to butterflies’ beauty, behavior and natural history—and to the scientists and enthusiasts dazzled by them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

America came out of the horrific influenza pandemic more than a century ago, then embarked on what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022

And that ring is not even considered the gaudiest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Phineas Gage's mother said her son exhibited himself here at P. T. Barnum's American Museum on Broadway in New York City Barnum was the gaudiest showman and greatest hoaxer of his age.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman