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单词 gaudy
释义
gaudy
adjective
uk
/ˈɡɔː.di/us
/ˈɡɑː.di/
unpleasantlybrightincolourordecoration:
俗丽的；花哨的；过于鲜艳的
gaudyplasticflowers俗丽的塑料假花
Synonyms
flashUK
garishdisapproving
gimcrackdisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off
  • conspicuous consumption
  • dressed
  • dressed (up) to the ninesidiom
  • flamboyance
  • flamboyantly
  • flashsomethingaround
  • flashily
  • flashy
  • flaunt
  • gimmick
  • grandstanding
  • hotdog
  • ostentatious
  • peacocking
  • posture
  • push(something)forward
  • razzmatazz
  • self-conscious
  • self-consciously
  • self-consciousness
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Related words

gaudily
gaudiness
(Definition ofgaudyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

gaudy| American Dictionary

gaudy
adjective
us
/ˈɡɔd·i,ˈɡɑd·i/
having too manybrightcolors:
He waswearinga gaudy Hawaiianshirt.
(Definition ofgaudyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgaudy

gaudy
It was a handsome, hand-crafted object, painted ingaudyfairground fashion with stained or etched glass in its windows and a marble-countered and ceramic-tiled interior.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Do 'all the elements of seria' really 'pass onstage in agaudyfarewell parade' in the first finale (p. 19)?
From theCambridge English Corpus
The casino was everything she promised, and more - garish,gaudy, noisy, manic, and with a gloriously chaotic sound environment to die for.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It was an ornately decorated,gaudysimulacrum of the tomb.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This book restores a sense of the man as private, nay secretive - modest, shy, retiring: and the frugal simplicity behind thegaudygallimaufry.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If anything, theirgaudyexcess parodied women's wear; the notion of sticking a few sunflowers in one's hat conjures up an image more laughable than fashionable.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Agaudy'get up' (to make use of an expressive common-place) is highly to be condemned, and at once stamps the wearer as a person of inferior taste.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Devotional content is a particularly distinctive thread, even in thegaudycloth of the film- music scene, i one that stands out readily and is thus easily studied.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They have had plenty of miscellaneous exhortation, in eloquent speeches, ingaudyposters and from earnest canvassers.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Nevertheless, we hope that the cease-fire agreement is not like a cheap colour television set, brilliant andgaudyin illumination but sadly out of focus.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We do not want anything flashy orgaudy; we want something dignified and solid.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I am thinking more on the aesthetic side of what one sees in the big signs—the bright lights, not thegaudylights.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The politicians who act out their chosen rôles and prefer to clothe their arguments in the bright andgaudyarguments of hyperbole, hypothesis, and exaggeration.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Books are all wrapped up in the same cellophane casings which are vulgar andgaudy.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We can imagine what agaudyperformance that would have been.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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