(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.
Rosary
Definition:
(n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(2) Adrenal insufficiency as a complication of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed, and a useful physical sign, the acromegalic rosary, rediscovered.
(3) When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
(4) During an operation 7 cm long string like rosary was removed.
(5) Volunteer, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Bristol.
(6) Nineteen patients had repetitive, nonlumen-obliterating, nonperistaltic (tertiary) contractions, six had corkscrew esophagus, and 10 had forceful, lumen-obliterating simultaneous contractions (rosary bead esophagus).
(7) Their happiness is irrational and interesting, because it is twin to the fury some express, so personally, towards abortion that they loiter outside family planning clinics with rosaries, believing that the aborting mother is depriving the world of something that comforts it, even if they will never know it; a prayer, in fact.
(8) A new type of vesicles with a marginal, rosary-like arrangement of particles was observed associated with masses of electron-dense particles.
(9) The Vatican's daily newspaper reported that each diver descending to the ship was carrying a rosary blessed by Pope Francis.
(10) Abdullah addressed the press wearing a western suit with a purple tie and pocket square – in contrast to Ghani who wore a traditional white shalwar khameez and thumbed a rosary, a sartorial nod to his Pashtun supporters.
(11) While a rowdy, at times almost carnivalesque protest took place alongside them, the anti-abortion protesters stood or kneeled and prayed quietly, some clutching rosary beads.
(12) Symptoms were similar in the majority of them: irritability, skin haemorrhages, swollen gums, scorbutic rosary, swelling and tenderness lower limbs.
(13) Much has been made of their harassment techniques that range from the insidious (bursting into hymn as tearful women emerge from the clinics, giving out plastic rosary beads in powder pink or baby blue at the door) to the mendacious (leaflets disguised as NHS literature that address the reader as "Mum" and speak of "not being able to look your future children in the eye").
(14) In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life.
(15) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(16) It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.
(17) A postcontrast CT scan at the level of the gallbladder body demonstrated the characteristic rosary sign.
(18) Images of the apartment interior show the bodies lying on floors covered in bullet shells and surrounded by rosaries and the images of Catholic saints.
(19) Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say.
(20) Chatsworth House is lending an object that bears witness to the religious upheaval of her father's reign, the rosary beads once owned by Henry - once ubiquitous objects, which in later years would come to be seen as dangerously heretical.