Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet GAUDY

Definition av GAUDY

1. brokig, (överdrivet) färggrann, prålig, skrikig

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• Duchin had no formal music training—which was said to frustrate his musicians at times—but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some saw as the forerunner of Liberace's ornate, gaudy approach.
• As a port city, it was notorious for its gaudy displays of wealth and loose morals, with the privateer crews spending their treasure in the many taverns, gambling houses and brothels which catered for the sailors.
• He joked with Johnny Carson, the show's host, and developed an amusing habit of wearing gaudy clothing.
• The band's name is an English adjective meaning dazzling, stridently coloured or excessively ornamented, gaudy, ostentatious, tastelessly showy, tacky or in raucously poor taste.
• The notorious underworld czar Johnny Vanning becomes the owner of a gaudy New York night club and renames it Club Intimate.
• In accord, therefore, with the late nineteenth century's predilection for gaudy celebrations, featuring bands and banquets, fireworks and fiery oratory, plans were formulated at the beginning of 1888 to solemnize Father Sorin's golden anniversary as a national as well as personal triumph.
• Cooper, New Monkees, Videolog with Huell Howser on KCET, Square One TV, Ellen, and Pee-wee's Playhouse wearing bouffant hairdos and gaudy blue eye shadow.
• Massha, a woman of truly monumental girth with bright orange hair and a gaudy fashion sense; she begins the series as "only" an expert user of magical weapons and tools, but eventually apprentices herself to Skeeve.
• Bugis Street was a gaudy film about the famous sleazy district where transvestites and transsexuals were found.
• " Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic called it "an uncanny yet earnest showcase of what makes pop/rock pop without the gaudy trendiness that now makes the 1980s seem so distasteful.
• Built in a Beaux Arts style that contrasted with the university's more somber Victorian Gothic revival taste in the late 19th century, the new building was considered by critics to be overreaching and gaudy.
• Janet Maslin of The New York Times described the film as "senselessly gaudy" and "overloaded with big names, and in this case the net effect of an all-star cast is to make an already confusing mystery even harder to follow".
• Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione.
• In modern English, the words "chintz" and "chintzy" can be used to refer to clothing or furnishings which are regarded as vulgar, suburban, petit-bourgeois or unfashionably florid in taste, and in informal speech, to refer to cheap, low quality, or gaudy things, and to describe mean or stingy personal behavior.
• Centour on his part would perform magic by reciting similar formulas while shaking his magic wristband (which looked like a gaudy wristwatch).
• Based on the supposedly gaudy look of showboats, the term "showboat" became slang for someone who wants ostentatious behavior to be seen at all costs.
• Together they had a gaudy win rate of 38% in graded stakes races, teaming to take 32 Grade 1s in a five-year span with Flute, Lido Palace, Squirtle Squirt, Aptitude, You, Beat Hollow, Medaglia d'Oro, Empire Maker, Sightseek, Aldebaran, Denon, Spoken Fur, Wild Spirit, Peace Rules, Intercontinental and I'm the Tiger.
• The Psalter, (noted for its gaudy, vivid images and its coarse Pythonesque humour) abounds in images of grotesques and drolleries.
• " Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times praised the film for mostly avoiding "the sort of tacky, splashy deaths" of the first two entries and concluded that Baker "has rounded off the gaudy trilogy with the most surprising qualities possible: intelligence and elegant visual style.
• Stereo Review magazine's Paul Kresh appraised the album negatively, calling it pretentious, inadequate, and dependent on movie music tricks and outdated techniques such as forced climaxes and gaudy orchestration.

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