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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

He probably does think slapping his name on a gaudy structure will be enough to overcome the historical record of his failures.

From Salon ● May 20, 2026

After the family relocates to Connecticut from New York, Delia can’t help but turn their quaint, historical home into a gaudy spectacle full of terrible, modern-gothic artwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Those are Prince Cardan’s extravagant doublets and breeches, Prince Cardan’s gaudy, fur-edged capelets and spider-silk shirts.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

As the plot gathers steam and accelerates, Johnson again offers a blunt evisceration of the privileged and powerful, only with fancier cocktails, showier bric-a-brac and gaudier outfits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Russell’s NBA peers definitely noticed, voting Russell league MVP five times — once more than Chamberlain — despite Wilt having far gaudier offensive stats.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022

But no, there was something gaudier even than this.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. by Mark Twain

“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

And that ring is not even considered the gaudiest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Nor did Harding envision what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history” — the Roaring Twenties.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 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