affectation, color clash, display, flatulence, grandiosity, mere externals, outward show, pretension, sensationalism, superficiality, turgescence
Definitionn. tasteless showiness
Last update: June 18, 2015
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If he lacks the genius of Claudian, he also lacks his overloaded gaudiness and his large exaggeration, and the directness of Rutilius shines by comparison with the laboured complexity of Ausonius. [Please select]
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Shakespeare's advice as to neatness without gaudiness is not followed. [Please select]
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Not less singular than its note is its plumage, which, though unmarked by gaudiness of colouring, is very beautiful, being richly embroidered as it were with brown and black on a reddish grey ground. [Please select]
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Who shall tell us why the grass is green, the rose is red, that bullfinch on the pear-tree so glorious in his gaudiness, and that sparrow so humble in his coat of brown. [Please select]
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