Adjective
The word is derived from gaudy
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. J. R. Moehringer
We Americans are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. Mark Twain