as in loud
excessively showy
gaudy decorations on all the doors and windows at festival time
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Recent Examples of gaudy
His numbers the next two years weren’t quite as gaudy but still very impressive: 9-1, 28 saves with a 1.93 ERA and 0.941 WHIP.
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Mitch Light, New York Times, 20 May 2025
At the time, unnatural hair color was considered gaudy, a threat to the beloved ingenue aesthetic boasted by female stars such as Audrey Hepburn.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
But Oklahoma City engulfs basketball’s gaudiest attacks not in spite of its hacking but because of it.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
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Mitch Light, New York Times, 20 May 2025
At the time, unnatural hair color was considered gaudy, a threat to the beloved ingenue aesthetic boasted by female stars such as Audrey Hepburn.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
But Oklahoma City engulfs basketball’s gaudiest attacks not in spite of its hacking but because of it.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaudy
Adjective
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The employee said a juvenile inside the restaurant was becoming loud, aggressive and was threatening employees and using profanities, according to a report from The South Bend Tribune.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
23 Aug. 2025
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His performance during this track likely made for one of the loudest shows Ravinia has ever seen.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Prior to and after the ruling, a small but noisy crowd spent those fateful hours chanting in support outside the PJ headquarters in San Telmo, a nearby Buenos Aires neighborhood, many of whom followed her back to Calle San José that frigid night.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Living in a downstairs apartment can be challenging, especially with noisy upstairs neighbors.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Printing innovations led to the garish dime novels that horrified parents and literary critics alike.—
Paul Andrew Hutton
August 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Aug. 2025
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The product of hours spent on Twitter, the novel is like a garish social-media thought experiment left to metastasize.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Transparent — these see-through beauts with wrap-up ankle straps are in a league of their own, saying a lot without ever appearing too flashy.—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
15 Mar. 2025
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Amid the classic, flashy film and television premieres this week at SXSW, the festival also offered a forum for burgeoning creators to showcase their work in the Independent TV Pilot Program.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Gaudy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaudy. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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