gaudy

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

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The ball patrons parade around the stage in spectacularly gaudy headdresses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

It'll be long and tiresome in Washington on Friday, it's got all the potential to be gaudy and embarrassing, uneasy on the eyes and the ears.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

But he hung up before I could get another word out, and it seemed that I had just turned around when a large, gaudy pickup hooked to a flashy two-horse trailer pulled into the driveway.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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 Henley, William Ernest

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 Black, Robert

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

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

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

The numbers have become gaudier as the season has gone on—no twenty-year-old in history has done what he’s been doing so far for a full season.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019

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

Sometimes, as a result of special rivalry among the young women, one village will affect gaudier embroidery and more of it than its neighbours.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

The Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote that the movie offers audiences “the gaudiest layout of gadgets this side of a Florida hotel.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2021

One of baseball’s gaudiest players simply dropped his bat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2021

Bryce Love was the glamour back at Stanford Stadium, the one with a Heisman campaign and the gaudiest rushing numbers in college football.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2017

And here we are, at the center of the arc, trapped in the gaudiest, most valuable, and most improbable water wheel the world has ever seen.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin