Definition of Gaudy

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Definition of Gaudy

Gaudy

Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

Gay; merry; festal.

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

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Gaudy Quotations

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
Earl Scruggs

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
Samuel Wesley

Gaudy Translations

gaudy in Norwegian is glorete, grell
gaudy in Spanish is ostentoso

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