as in loud
excessively showy
gaudy decorations on all the doors and windows at festival time
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Recent Examples of gaudy
Those gaudy numbers came on top of fast agility times.
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Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
The idea of stuffing a casino in a place already buzzing with hordes of tourists and gaudy lights made sense from afar.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
The Tigers piled up gaudy stats Saturday.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
That gaudy slash line is almost solely responsible for Alcántara being the September call-up over top outfield prospect Owen Caissie.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
The idea of stuffing a casino in a place already buzzing with hordes of tourists and gaudy lights made sense from afar.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
The Tigers piled up gaudy stats Saturday.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
That gaudy slash line is almost solely responsible for Alcántara being the September call-up over top outfield prospect Owen Caissie.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaudy
Adjective
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Their noise got loudest at night when the city became quiet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Sports radio can be loud and raucous, blaring with bluster and bellowing.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Weber installed bars in multiple disparate locations, and although the bars themselves did display signs of significant amounts of noise, Weber looked for correlations in these noisy signals between bars in different locations.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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With fewer people having children, empathy toward parents—and patience for noisy, curious kids—has waned.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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This has translated into freakishly unstable songs that spin from garish wubs and witch folk to lullaby-like purrs.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Hedda is nothing if not a showcase for both the star and her director Nia DaCosta, with the latter setting the drama in 1950s English high society and giving everything a garish, gloriously over-the-top aesthetic that suggests Downton Abbey via Baz Luhrmann.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And while the most exciting developments in defense are being driven by flashy, high-risk California VC investments, the man making the decisions comes from the grimly analytical East Coast world of PE.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Highlight your brand’s value by solving a problem, not just creating flashy posts.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Gaudy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaudy. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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