(superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
(superl.) Gay; merry; festal.
(n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
(n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
Example Sentences:
(1) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(2) Gaudy, Elizabeth T. (University of Illinois, Urbana), and R. S. Wolfe.
(3) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
(4) We have seen upsets and outbursts, sunshine and downpours, staggering exits and gaudy new arrivals.
(5) In the swimming pool below us, a throng of bikini-clad women and lads in Quiksilver board shorts are drinking gaudy cocktails and splashing about, having piggy-back pool fights.
(6) The march was later stopped a block away from Trump’s gaudy Fifth Avenue skyscraper where earlier in the day protester Margot Borske, 61, a nurse practitioner, told the Guardian: “We can continue to make our protest heard for every piece of legislation, every cabinet appointment, every amendment he tries to overturn [to] set this country back 50 years.
(7) Nestled away on an anonymous street behind Victoria station in London, opposite a Ladbrokes betting shop and overshadowed by the gaudy branding of a nearby restaurant called Loco Mexicano, is a little glass door crowned with the words Pret Academy.
(8) Gezi Park was completely cleared of the gaudy paraphernalia of pluralist protest that had been its hallmark.
(9) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(10) I smoked it on the plane all the way back to London, hiding the gaudy light show under a blanket.
(11) They gave the orders, booked flights and accommodation, picked up the heroin, even bought loose, gaudy tourist shirts to cover up the drugs.
(12) In the middle of Amsterdam, the activists painted a small number of used bikes white, and issued a pamphlet stating that “the white bike symbolises simplicity and hygiene as opposed to the gaudiness and filth of the authoritarian car”.
(13) And who can forget a few years back when the bright, gaudy, rhinestoned nail designs popular with minorities made the jump from chavvy to chic as soon as the masses cottoned on?
(14) While shaking NBA commissioner Adam Silver's hand, Wiggins flashed a grin so wide that it almost – almost – deflected attention away from his gaudy, florally-patterned suit.
(15) So I’ve always dismissed cruising – with its gaudy decor and ra-ra entertainment – as tacky and unimaginative at best, socially shameful and environmentally reprehensible at worst.
(16) The spectre of Blair has been hanging over proceedings like forgotten Christmas decorations after Twelfth Night, a gaudy reminder of times past, once enjoyable but now dragging on.
(17) But my father is very far from being a hero – I always say if someone reads my book and wants to be Pablo Escobar, then I did a bad job.” And while Narcos does have a certain Goodfellas -style glamour to its depiction of Escobar’s gaudy world, it is careful to present a fully rounded portrayal of the drugs trade.
(18) Shoppers might well look upon it as Catholics do Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, a design that adds fantasia to the architectural experience of their religion.
(19) But the reality is that, like the gaudy birds in the aviary on the shores of the Zugersee, he is unable to flutter very far.
(20) Yet Douglas points out that real stardom came relatively late, when he was nudging middle age, with the gaudy double-header of Fatal Attraction and Wall Street.
Rory
Definition:
(a.) Dewy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(2) Nushra Mansuri , professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers Vasilios Ioakimidis , secretary of the European Association of Schools of Social Work and programme director of MA international social work and community development at the University of Durham Rory Truell , secretary-general of the International Federation of Social Workers Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, hosted to a brief agreed with Cafcass.
(3) Rory Kinnear is captivating as the journalist covering a massacre.
(4) After expressing frustration with Stoke City's style of play, the dreadful standard of the game and the lack of width available on a pitch narrowed to exploit Rory Delap's throw-ins, Tony Mowbray finally realised that a sixth defeat in seven matches might also owe something to West Bromwich Albion's shortcomings.
(5) Gray said he and his brother, Rory, who lives in Germany, had met Wood and been in contact by email during her investigation.
(6) He tweeted on Wednesday: “I did not pull out of presenting the Rory Peck Awards - they dropped me.” The awards were set up in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993.
(7) When Rory McIlroy is hitting hole-in-ones and Carl Frampton is swinging knock-out punches, we cheer together.
(8) Rory Stewart in Iraq in 2004 during his time as deputy governorate co-ordinator of Maysan province.
(9) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(10) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
(11) Ringo Starr, Elton John, Ronnie Wood, Rory Gallagher and Brian May were among the extraordinary cast who joined him for his come-back album, Puttin' On The Style, which was launched in grand style with a party in the south of France.
(12) Fittingly, for an actor playing a TV news reporter who is called to the scene, it is Rory Kinnear who best articulates the conflicting emotions around such an event.
(13) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.
(14) A former economics editor of the Independent who is married to the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones , Coyle was tipped as a leading contender for the job earlier this month .
(15) The MoD needs to understand better the links between deployment, alcohol misuse and violent behaviour, especially domestic violence.” Rory Stewart MP, the committee chairman, said: “The armed forces is perhaps the most impressive and effective institution in Britain today, and an inspiration to the rest of the country.
(16) Rory Stewart, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said in a statement released over the weekend: “There are clear benefits of EU membership for our natural environment, both at home and abroad.
(17) In Cumbria, the new Tory MP for Penrith and the Borders, Rory Stewart, is trying to improve the provision of broadband.
(18) Southcliffe, a Channel 4 drama about the aftermath of a series of shootings in a small town, also picked up supporting actor and actress nods for Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson and is in the running in the mini-series category.
(19) Rory Albanese (@RoryAlbanese) I only wish I was there so I could tongue kiss @StephenAtHome the way he deserves.
(20) Rory Carroll reports: Asked whether this launch is a response to pressure to monetize, Zuckberg laughs it off.