Use "gaudy" in a sentence

1. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls

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2. Astride a couple of motor bikes sat a couple of other visitors, rather obvious in matching wraparound sunglasses, identical maroon shorts and gaudy waterproofs; I couldn't help but wonder why they found our van so fascinating

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3. She looked good but not gaudy today, in a white peasant blouse and big colorful skirt, both of a gauzy material, both without underwear

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4. The gaudy sun was high overhead, the air was still and heavy

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5. In that simple state, the expense even of a sovereign is not directed by the vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court, but is employed in bounty to his

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6. occasional gaudy lipstick, yet it could still take her fifteen minutes to get ready to go out

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7. In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court

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8. colour was too gaudy for his taste

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9. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!

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10. The gaudy bandstand, kind of a circular stage in various levels, was in the exact epicenter of the room, where all eyes could see it

11. From what he could gather, mourning customs, at least among the upper crust, involved a conspicuous display of gaudy colours and extroverted emotions

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12. She let herself fall backwards with her arms stretched out in gaudy playfulness, only to find herself still standing as if she had turned all the way around

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13. Oh no, probably a gaudy corsage of stiff chrysanthemums that will ruin this soft dress

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14. Pick out a gaudy egg of your dreams from his colorful basket and don’t worry

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15. Each of the seven was wearing a big gaudy paper tag with

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16. style, but it was characteristic of the mid-twenties, gaudy

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17. He was once the most worldly of priests, notorious for his gaudy clothes and feasting, but he seems to have interpreted the disaster as a personal message from God

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18. Slowly, the two creatures of the night descended, landing before the gates of a huge, gaudy amusement park called, Coney Island

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19. “Tough out here on your own, eh? We may be garish and gaudy, rude and crude, but we are one, and we still need our main attraction

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20. This is our history, and I won’t sell it to that shark, so he can build another gaudy monument to himself!”

21. From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of identical size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar’s head

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22. A freak storm came up and he was struck by lightning; right near that horrible, gaudy iron crib

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23. There were pink suits, large sun hats, loud shirts, green trousers, a gaudy sun umbrella, cut off jeans showing about three inches of sagging buttock above pea-stick legs in bovver boots! I couldn’t believe it

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24. Christmas at home always meant bad tempers, relations I had no desire to see, and embarrassment at my Christmas presents which, in our house, were handkerchiefs and underpants wrapped in last year’s gaudy paper

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25. Towards the back of the sunbathers, under a gaudy umbrella, a large woman of indeterminate age fixed her eyes on Sebastian as he sauntered along the edge of the pool and dived in

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26. As he came into the waist the crew thronged about him Zingarans, all of them, half naked, their gaudy silk garments splashed with tar, jewels glinting in ear-rings and dagger-hilts

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27. We watched them trot by, a company of the Emperor’s Hussars in their sharp, gaudy uniforms of blue wool, red accoutrements and silver buttons

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28. In the centre of the community, almost hidden by snow-laden trees, was an unmistakable blue and white Russian Orthodox church, complete with a large onion-shaped cupola and all the intricate but gaudy baroque trappings of a bygone era

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29. The severed finger, gaudy rings in situ, lying on the table next to the small recorder evoked no response

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30. Dressed in the gaudy flower-print shirts so

31. There arrived with him a rich group of splendid matrons who were protect-ing themselves from the burning sun with gaudy parasols, and wore on their shoulders fine silk kerchiefs, with colored creams on their faces and natural flowers in their hair and golden serpents on their arms and diamonds in their teeth

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32. To the greater disad-vantage of his wife, as she was entering into a sad maturity with her somber long dresses, her old-fashioned medals, and her out-of-place pride, the concubine seemed to be bursting with a second youth, clothed in gaudy dresses of natural silk and with her eyes tiger--striped with a glow of vindication

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33. Proctor said that liberal church leaders associated with that seminary were more enlightened than the many black pastors who revolted him as “given to gaudy dress, unbridled egotism, and self-aggrandizement; they exploited women willing to do anything to be close to the ‘pastor

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34. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude

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35. When he rode the bicycle he would wear acrobat’s tights, gaudy socks, and a Sherlock Holmes cap, but when he was on foot he would dress in a spotless natural linen suit, white shoes, a silk bow tie, a straw boater, and he would carry a willow stick in his hand

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36. We passed another cinema that was so covered in gaudy posters

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37. The lettering on their sides read “Maxwell and Sundberg’s Flying Circus,” in gaudy, but badly faded colors

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38. It had lost its true color long ago, fading to a gaudy lime

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39. The shop window was full of the most unpleasant china ornaments, while inside were rows of gold chains, very gaudy bangles and, on Leo Mutasa’s first visit, a number of Ukrainian United Nations soldiers, no doubt buying gifts for their local girlfriends

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40. Maybe the saving grace was the insertions for wife-swapping that seemed genuine for they were all about give and take; but then, wasn’t he rendered a hors de combat for he lacked the means for a quid pro quo? What about Vimala, he thought as he recalled that evening when he was led into a lounge of a mansion where he found a score of whores in awkward postures, and as he turned his back on the gaudy dames in disgust, one lissome lass in a Turkish towel walked in

41. ” James said suddenly, looking up at the gaudy chandelier

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42. ” Caramarin hurried up the steps and into the gaudy world inside

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43. collection, a few boxes of gaudy fliers for a night club stood on a table, rolls of posters stacked next to a photocopier

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44. Over calmer water, gaudy sails a-trimming

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45. Grand illusions sparkling off the gaudy baubles it admires,

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46. Petra stared at the fortuneteller’s tent – silky curtains, beaded strings, the faint aroma of vanilla, a gaudy riot of color

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47. son, or the ones they have are too gaudy for my tastes--

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48. To the Spanish Coke commercial that sells coke by asking the question: “How many people will come to your funeral?” Showing a parade of professional actors following a funeral hearse painted in gaudy colors… only to run the hearse along with the coffin in it, off a pier into the ocean: when suddenly a giant fish leaps up and swallows the hearse with the dead body inside it before it can hit the water: this is a regression that goes so far back into the mists of primordial Time it is incredible… back to a Time when giant reptilian aquatic monsters regularly killed and ate anything that moved on the land or flew in the air… just as reptilian fish today still leap out of the water and swallow insects: equating the dead corpse of a human and the hearse carrying it as the shell of an insect, as an insect to be eaten by some undead reptilian monster

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49. looked at the myriad of gaudy swinging signs

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50. It was the most gaudy sight either man had ever encountered in life

51. To-day he would appear in one gay dress, to-morrow in another; but all flimsy and gaudy, of little substance and less worth

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52. But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron

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53. He found the count standing before some copies of Albano and Fattore that had been passed off to the banker as originals; but which, mere copies as they were, seemed to feel their degradation in being brought into juxtaposition with the gaudy colors that covered the ceiling

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54. His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins: sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws

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55. Gaudy colour warns you off

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56. I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and called each other your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, 'stead of mister; and Jim's eyes bugged out, and he was interested

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57. I reckoned the poor king was in for a gaudy time of it with the audience, but nothing of the sort; pretty soon he crawls out from under the wigwam, and

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58. There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too

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59. A pair of gaudy suspenders strained under the load and seemed ready to pop, with consequences that would be too gross to consider

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60. Westminster was filling with tourists, lingering at gaudy stalls of Union Jack tat, their mobile phones and expensive cameras held aloft to capture the looming Houses of Parliament

61. This gaudy relationship did him little good at

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62. He spoke with enthusiasm of his successes and his failures, his births and his deaths, and he would cry out in his delight, like a schoolboy, when, as we walked, some gaudy bird would flutter up from the grass, or some curious beast slink into the cover

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63. grave alcalde himself, in a white waistcloth and a flowered chintz gown with sleeves, open wide upon his naked stout person with an effect of a gaudy bathing robe, stood by, wearing a rough beaver hat at the back of his head, and grasping a tall staff with a silver knob in his hand

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64. They were gaudy but they

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65. She forgot her fourth‐hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her immense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light‐coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame‐coloured feather

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66. Suddenly he recognised her, crushed and ashamed in her humiliation and gaudy finery, meekly awaiting her turn to say good‐ bye to her dying father

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67. And too gaudy to blend in with buildings and streets

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68. How wise I had been to fix my Heart upon Lancelot’s Lofty Friendship rather than Bellars’ Scurvy Lust! Here was Love conjoin’d with High Ideals, Love which did not seek to bribe with Jewels nor play the gaudy Games of Coquetry, but Love which sought to join two Souls in pure Service to the Great Goal of Liberty! How could I burn such a Letter upon the Instant? I must read and re-read it until I knew its Contents by Heart! And so I tuckt it in my Bosom, promising myself that I should burn it ere long—but only after I had savour’d its stirring Text, not merely one more Time but sev’ral

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69. He finally disappeared behind the gaudy red door of the Sinbad Star

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70. It was still fashionable, but she felt gaudy in it, and aware that it looked strange with her short hair

71. A little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and "sniffing around," then proceeding again—for he was measuring, Tom said; and when the worm approached him, of its own accord, he sat as still as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and then came decisively down upon Tom's leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad—for that meant that he was going to have a new suit of clothes—without the shadow of a doubt a gaudy piratical uniform

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72. It was loose and shimmering and gaudy and glorious

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73. This excellent observer has shown that in some districts of South America, where, for instance, an Ithomia abounds in gaudy swarms, another butterfly, namely, a Leptalis, is often found mingled in the same flock; and the latter so closely resembles the Ithomia in every shade and stripe of colour, and even in the shape of its wings, that Mr

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74. She forgot her fourth-hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her immense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light-coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame-coloured feather

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75. "The colour is too gaudy, it looks as though one were trying to be conspicuous," and I did not take the lemon-coloured ones

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76. Moist eyes of almond shape, smiling red lips, a little moustache well waxed, hair brushed in the latest fashion, a vulgarly pretty face,—what the women call ‘not bad,’—feebly built physically, but with no deformity; with hips as broad as a woman’s; correct, and insinuating himself into the familiarity of people as far as possible, but having that keen sense that quickly detects a false step and retires in reason,—a man, in short, observant of the external rules of dignity, with that special Parisianism that is revealed in buttoned boots, a gaudy cravat, and that something which foreigners pick up in Paris, and which, in its peculiarity and novelty, always has an influence on our women

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77. And many careless people who pressed around him, and did not notice him, later learned with wonder and fear the name of this stout, quiet man who brushed against them with his sumptuous, gaudy garments

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78. The sight that met our eyes was this: Gravely walking down the middle of the street were two of the "Hackney Ghurkas," the foremost of whom was dressed in a frock coat and top hat, evidently the property of the village maire, and leading a decorated mule upon the head of which was tied the most gaudy "creation" which ever adorned a woman's head

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79. Near the man, on the footpath, was a young girl of about fifteen years of age, fashionably dressed, with crinoline, mantle, and gloves, and a straw hat trimmed with gaudy feathers, but all old and terribly worn out, who, in a loud and cracked though not altogether unpleasing voice, was singing before a shop in expectation of a couple of kopecks

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80. He himself held the gaudy bit of pasteboard as if its very touch was defiling, and then tossed it on the ground

81. There was a narrow pier at Wolfshead, sheltered by a point of rocky shore that made a landing for small boats in good weather, and there the steam launch was waiting with its two trim sailors and its gaudy flag

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82. Again and again the line of rainbow jackets drew taut across the course, only to break and tangle, and at last dissolve into its original gaudy units

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