gaudy

Walking around Comic Con, I couldn’t help thinking that dressing up in gaudy costumes wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

The style had roots in the late 18th century, when France’s Directoire era represented a retreat from gaudy Rococo maximalism and an embrace of clean, froth-free lines.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Between Raton, N.M., and Trinidad, Colo., amid a gaudy sunset, we crept past a herd of elk, then plunged into a tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

The gaudy frames of the glasses were cheap, drawing attention to features that needed no heavy emphasis.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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 Henley, William Ernest

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 Black, Robert

It does not seek the new, but demands endless repetition of the same themes, merely with greater elaboration, gaudier technical effects and greater expense.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

As the plot gathers steam and accelerates, Johnson again offers a blunt evisceration of the privileged and powerful, only with fancier cocktails, showier bric-a-brac and gaudier outfits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

The numbers have become gaudier as the season has gone on—no twenty-year-old in history has done what he’s been doing so far for a full season.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019

If not, it meant that she was out of the chrysalis and had become, not the busy bee that belongs to the mesquite and the sage, but a gaudier, less responsible flutterer among eastern flower-beds.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

“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

It wasn’t the day’s gaudiest highlight, but to Prunty it laid bare the qualities that only the most daring passers possess.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022

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

Phineas Gage's mother said her son exhibited himself here at P. T. Barnum's American Museum on Broadway in New York City Barnum was the gaudiest showman and greatest hoaxer of his age.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman