gaudy
Example Sentences
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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
The compensation is unprecedented, but investors have chosen this type of gaudy compensation for Musk in the past.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
But of all the gaudy statistics that Rantanen has compiled this year, the most remarkable number of his season so far might be how many times he was traded: Two.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2025
“Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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