Something that's gaudy is showy, bright and definitely tacky. So think twice about that gaudy rainbow colored suit and shiny gold shoes ensemble.
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Noun
a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university
Adjective S.
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Adjective S.
tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
superl.
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
meretricious.
superl.
Gay; merry; festal.
n.
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the
paternoster is recited.
n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
Gaudy
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.2.
Let's have one other gaudy night.
Gaudy
Gaudy
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
A feast or festival; -- called also
Usage Examples
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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