Sentence example with the word 'gaudy'

gaudy

affected, chintzy, elevated, garish, high-sounding, miserable, pedantic, rubbishy, shabby, tasteless, valueless

Definition adj. tastelessly showy

Last update: December 31, 2015


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Circus artists wear gaudy clothes to attract people.   [adjective]

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Dicentra spectabilis - a fine combination of gaudy color and very graceful form.   [adjective]

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It is a small box painted in gaudy colors.   [adjective]

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But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron.   [adjective]

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She came back to us no wiser for years of exile--came back with her priests and her Italian singing-boys, her incense-bearers and golden candlesticks and gaudy rags of Rome.   [adjective]

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But I forgot, you have not seen Paris, nor those acres of gaudy colouring which Henri's vanity inflicted upon us.   [adjective]

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He struck a match on the gaudy little paper box he carried and began to smoke thoughtfully.   [adjective]

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That gaudy flower at its first appearance made such a stir among gardeners that Mr.   [adjective]

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The preparations were now complete, and presently a trumpeter in gaudy uniform arose by the editor, ready to blow the signal of commencement promptly at his order.   [adjective]

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It's gaudy, Huck.   [adjective]

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There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too.'   [adjective]

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