gaudiness
Example Sentences
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It stands as a subtle rebuke to contemporary excess and gaudiness, etched like salt spray on the sparse landscape: silent, transparent, elemental.
From New York Times
The gaudiness struck him as grotesque; the biblical term “mammon” came to mind.
From New York Times
Its sympathies are more subtle than its brash gaudiness initially lets on.
From The Guardian
That last name refers to the archetypal dandy Beau Brummel, who eschewed peacockian gaudiness for meticulous simplicity: “If John Bull turns round to look after you, you are not well dressed.”
From Washington Post
“I think the gaudiness of both cultures may have inspired my aesthetic,” Awad said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
