GAUDY in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for GAUDY, such as:
1. This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
2. The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
3. Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
4. They were gaudy but they were new and fashionable and certainly they caught the eye.
5. The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
2. The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
3. Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
4. They were gaudy but they were new and fashionable and certainly they caught the eye.
5. The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
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Meanings and Examples of GAUDY
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gaudy
a. very showy or ornamented, especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
Classic Sentence:
1 Many prostitutes had flocked into Atlanta, following the soldiers, but Belle stood out above the rest, due to her flaming hair and the gaudy, overly fashionable dresses she wore.
2 They were gaudy but they were new and fashionable and certainly they caught the eye.
3 She loved gaudy and expensive jewelry but she had an uneasy feeling that everyone was saying, with perfect truth, that this ring was vulgar.
4 Mrs. Hatch swam in a haze of indeterminate enthusiasms, of aspirations culled from the stage, the newspapers, the fashion journals, and a gaudy world of sport still more completely beyond her companion's ken.
5 But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron.
6 He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
7 Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
8 Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
9 The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
10 About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills.
11 This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
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12 "The colour is too gaudy, it looks as though one were trying to be conspicuous," and I did not take the lemon-coloured ones.
13 A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cottonfields.
14 A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
Example Sentence:
1 The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
2 There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smooch it, and carve the things on it.
3 Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
4 Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.