gaudy
Example Sentences
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In a letter to critic George Jean Nathan, he described the conclusion as “merely the comma at the end of a gaudy introductory clause, with the body of the sentence still unwritten.”
From Los Angeles Times
Few booms have quite matched the gaudy Mississippi Co. episode in early 18th century France.
It'll be long and tiresome in Washington on Friday, it's got all the potential to be gaudy and embarrassing, uneasy on the eyes and the ears.
From BBC
Four years after Lincoln Riley arrived at USC amid gaudy promises to return the football program to national prominence, well, two words.
From Los Angeles Times
And there was his new man in an ill-fitting suit and gaudy tie, puffing on a pipe like a kid with a theater prop.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
