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gaudiest

a. (en-superlativegaudy)

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gaudiest

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gaudy
  1. adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

  2. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty]

  3. n. a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university

  4. [also: gaudiest, gaudier]

Usage examples of "gaudiest".

Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets?

All those that I know are on exhibition, whether the lady be dressed in her gaudiest gown, with an attractive headdress and a look which shows that she is posing first of all before the artist and then before those who will look at her or whether they have taken a comfortable attitude in an ordinary gown.

IN the days of the First Magewar, Waycross on Innish-Kyl had been one of the gaudiest and most riotous ports in the civilized galaxy.

We are due at her palatial residence in but an hour or so, and we must bathe and dress in our very gaudiest finery.