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

Such gaudy control of the race has naturally raised suspicions around Pogacar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

It was rather like the adipose fin of a fish, but gaudy.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

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

By the purple shadows I can tell you that in a few minutes 'twill be sunrise, and all gaudier than a campmeeter's picture of heaven.

From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen

“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

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

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson