GAUDY


Meaning of GAUDY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gaudy/garish colour (= loud and usually showing bad taste )

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gaudy neon sign

I didn't like the decorations - they looked rather gaudy .

She smelled of cheap perfume and wore gaudy clothing and fake costume jewellery.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Another one put washing on to a line, gaudy bedclothes and sombre shirts.

Not only was it gaudy in appearance but the smell wafting from the kitchen was distinctly malodorous.

On the walls, pictures of Mecca and General Zia mingle with gaudy Alpine scenes.

The beautiful lion fish belongs to this gaudy category and is therefore much easier to avoid.

The men who tended the garden were well aware that to modern eyes this planting scheme was gaudy and banal.

Within this area, several males - smaller and less gaudy than the females - establish much smaller territories.

Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe.

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