1. gaudy - Noun
2. gaudy - Adjective
4. gaudy - Adjective Satellite
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Gay; merry; festal.
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCapitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau. Camille Paglia
Neat, not gaudy. Charles Lamb
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. Erik Naggum
...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night's creatures. Anthony Burgess
This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose. Peter Greenaway
Rich not gaudy. Chinese Proverb