gaudily

Example Sentences

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The New Yorker called Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis movie “a gaudily decorated Wikipedia article” and IndieWire dubbed the Whitney Houston biopic a “Wikipedia page set to song,” panning the “abject laziness of the film’s construction.”

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2023

Others said the program would mean the demise of the gaudily decorated and brightly colored jeepneys, which have been regarded as Manila’s “King of the Road” and a showcase of Philippine culture on wheels.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Klaus Bruns’s costumes — such as Babinsky’s tattered shirt cuffs and the Magician’s gaudily sparkling purple evening jacket — are precise or dreamlike, as needed.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

Joe is in many ways Arthur’s opposite, a somber, gray-bearded wreck of a man beside the Joker’s giggling, gaudily colored beanpole.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2020

So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald