gaudy

Across the courtyard in another workshop a handful of PoWs are making artificial Christmas trees, gaudy baubles strung from their machines.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Some projects have been viewed as gaudy or unnecessary, while others have been applauded by local residents.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Investors are suddenly very nervous about the gaudy sums tech giants are spending on AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

After the family relocates to Connecticut from New York, Delia can’t help but turn their quaint, historical home into a gaudy spectacle full of terrible, modern-gothic artwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Yessir, then they would all drive down to Anglada’s Floral City in Chamisaville and load up with gaudy plastic bouquets to heap on Joe’s rocky mound in the Milagro camposanto!

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The days on which they occur are called gaudies or gaudy days.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Crocus and daffodil and violet, Pink, primrose, valley-lily, clove-carnation, Red rose and white rose, wall-flower, mignonette, The daisies all—these be her recreation, Her gaudies these! 

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

Marshal," said he to Chabannes, "we are told that over the Po yonder is Sir Prosper Colonna, with two thousand horse, in a town called Villafranca, apprehending nought and thinking of nought but gaudies.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black

That’s because playing on the same defensive line might clear the biggest roadblock that they have faced stopping them from putting up even gaudier numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

There are other pitchers who have gaudier numbers, including Dodger teammate Tony Gonsolin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

Butler had gaudier individual scoring performances, but Tatum was the steadier force.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

It drew four best drama series Emmy nods, the sole broadcast nominee in recent years amid grander and gaudier competition such as Netflix’s “The Crown,” HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2022

Hugo declining antithesis and content to be no gaudier than his neighbours? 

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley

“The Language of Butterflies” is equal parts an ode to the gaudiest of insects—a tribute to butterflies’ beauty, behavior and natural history—and to the scientists and enthusiasts dazzled by them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Real money announces itself by being the gaudiest in any room.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

The Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote that the movie offers audiences “the gaudiest layout of gadgets this side of a Florida hotel.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2021

There’s an unmistakable humility tucked in the gaudiest development in the country this season, in the numbers blaring from the loud, heavy air of Louisiana.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson