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gaudily

adverb

Definition of gaudily

as in garishly

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Recent Examples of gaudily On our first morning, Sara and I woke to one of the roughly 300 days of sun that Taos receives each year—gaudily beautiful weather for the end of February. — Michael Paterniti, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025

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But where the exhibitions on Cribs were charmingly, sometimes garishly, idiosyncratic, today’s represent a subtler and often more generic version of taste.

— Kim Hew-Low, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of garishly

Adverb

The experience of the drink is composed, elegant even, a sophisticated push and pull subtlety and counterbalance, but the list of ingredients reads, to me, to be almost flamboyantly random.

— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2026
And Cayden Alley is endearing and playful as Damian, the school’s most flamboyantly gay student.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026

Definition of flamboyantly

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Bryan Fuller’s expressionistic procedural is ostentatiously gruesome, yes, but the increasingly disturbing interplay between Will and Hannibal — cat and mouse, will-they/won’t they — is a full course meal on its own.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
In her closet were seven Ungaros, three Rykiels, a Kamali bathing suit and a Kamali sleeping-bag coat, five Kenzo dresses, two pieces from the Ballets Russes collection of Saint Laurent—all of which were trades or payments in kind, none of them mothballed, but instead worn ostentatiously and often.

— Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of ostentatiously

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Room 1134’s distressed leather and cast iron accents, dimmable overhead lighting, and wide plank oakwood flooring counterbalance colorfully ombre shades, brocade throws, and a cushy seafoam blue loveseat at the foot of the (very plush) bed.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
In what turns out to be the biggest moment in Neil’s young serving career, the handyman and Berzatto family friend keeps his composure and colorfully chats up the diner everyone believed was the Michelin-star inspector.

— Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 26 June 2026

Definition of colorfully

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One night in early 1973, Michael heard that a trial lawyer named Louis Nizer, who had not been involved in the Rosenberg case, was reading out loud from his parents’ prison letters on TV.

— Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
The eastern Pennsylvania town of Easton was one of only three places (along with Philadelphia and Trenton) where the Declaration of Independence was read out loud to colonists, following its adoption on July 4, 1776.

— Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Definition of loud

Adverb

On the opposite side of the ball, he could be heard barking orders out during pick-and-roll situations, loudly letting teammates know where the ball-handler was headed.

— Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
This isn’t a case of one person speaking a little too loudly.

— R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 July 2026

Definition of loudly

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The problem was brilliantly framed by a German classicist, Friedrich August Wolf, in 1795.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
No English player was less deserving of agonising defeat against Argentina than Gordon, who brilliantly swept them in front from Morgan Rogers’ cross.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 16 July 2026

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