GAUDY in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for GAUDY, such as:

1. This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
2. The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
3. Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
4. They were gaudy but they were new and fashionable and certainly they caught the eye.
5. The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAUDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gaudy
 a.  very showy or ornamented, especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
Classic Sentence:
1  Many prostitutes had flocked into Atlanta, following the soldiers, but Belle stood out above the rest, due to her flaming hair and the gaudy, overly fashionable dresses she wore.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  They were gaudy but they were new and fashionable and certainly they caught the eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She loved gaudy and expensive jewelry but she had an uneasy feeling that everyone was saying, with perfect truth, that this ring was vulgar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Mrs. Hatch swam in a haze of indeterminate enthusiasms, of aspirations culled from the stage, the newspapers, the fashion journals, and a gaudy world of sport still more completely beyond her companion's ken.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
5  But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
9  The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
10  About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
12  "The colour is too gaudy, it looks as though one were trying to be conspicuous," and I did not take the lemon-coloured ones.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cottonfields.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
2  There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smooch it, and carve the things on it.
3  Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
4  Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.