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Meanings of gaudily in English

In a tastelessly garish manner.

Usage of gaudily in English
1
The man clattered down the steps of the gaudily painted little structure.
'Doc.' Gordon
2
She shows Fawcett her gaudily decorated house, and talks about the neighborhood.
The new yorker
3
She was lined up between more gaudily made-up numbers, looking awfully demure.
Pinball, 1973
4
These gaudily marked beasts take queer aspects even on an open plain.
The Land of Footprints
5
Stockily built mechanics swaggered along with their simpering, gaudily dressed lady loves.
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
6
Here was a gaudily outfitted band and there an antique Toyota Corolla.
Moonfall
7
The salon was luxuriously, if, according to Wilhelm's taste, somewhat gaudily furnished.
The Malady of the Century
8
Hiram was busy putting order baskets in the gaudily painted wagon.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
9
There were four of them; two gaudily-clad damsels and two men.
Further Adventures of Lad
10
My reign might have been neat; it would never have been gaudily splendid.
Lazarre
11
Kit, though gaudily coquettish in her taste, was apparently careless in her habits.
The Lion's Mouse
12
For gaudily marked beasts the colobus were extraordinarily difficult to see.
The Land of Footprints
13
The walls were whitewashed and bore some religious prints, gaudily colored.
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
14
Schumann describes that sunset more gaudily than ever chromo was painted.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
15
They are about thirty feet long, richly carved and gaudily painted.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
16
Wedged gaudily between Spit Hearth and The Crow was the city's worst-kept secret.
Perdido Street Station
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