GAUDY vs TAWDRY: NOUN
- A celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university
- A feast or festival; an entertainment; a treat.
- Gaiety; gaudiness.
- One of the tapers burnt, in commemoration of the five joyful mysteries, by the image, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, during masses, antiphons, and hymns in her honor.
- 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.
- A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
- (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
- One of the beads in the rosary marking the five joyful mysteries, or five joys of the Virgin. See rosary. Also gaud.
- A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
- A piece of rustic or cheap finery; a necklace, as of strung beads; a ribbon.
- Cheap and gaudy finery.
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: ADJECTIVE
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
- Gay; merry; festal.
- Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
- Tastelessly showy
- Tastelessly showy
- Cheap and gaudy; showy.
- Cheap and shoddy
- Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy
- Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
- Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. : garish.
- Shameful or indecent.
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Joyful; merry; festive.
- Brilliantly fine or gay; bright; garish.
- Showy without taste; vulgarly gay or splendid; flashy.
- Synonyms Flaunting, glittering; garish, flashy, dressy, finical. See tawdry.
- To deck with ostentatious finery; bedizen.
- Made of inferior workmanship and materials
- Synonyms Tawdry, Gaudy. That which is tawdry has lost whatever freshness or elegance it has had, but is worn as if it were fresh, tasteful, and elegant, or it may be a cheap and ostentatious imitation of what is rich or costly; that which is gaudy challenges the eye by brilliant color or combinations of colors, but is not in good taste.
- Characterized by cheap finery; gaudy; showy and tasteless; having too much or misapplied ornament; cheap; worthless.
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: RELATED WORDS
- Sporty, Cheap, Jazzy, Brassy, Meretricious, Tawdry, Tasteless, Gimcrack, Tatty, Trashy, Colorful, Showy, Tacky, Flashy, Garish
- Loud, Flash, Inferior, Brassy, Cheap, Flashy, Tatty, Shoddy, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Tasteless, Garish, Meretricious, Tacky, Trashy
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sporty, Cheap, Jazzy, Brassy, Meretricious, Tawdry, Tasteless, Gimcrack, Tatty, Trashy, Colorful, Showy, Tacky, Flashy, Garish
- Loud, Flash, Inferior, Brassy, Cheap, Flashy, Tatty, Shoddy, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Tasteless, Garish, Meretricious, Tacky, Trashy
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- We could care less about that gaudy zippered clutch, though.
- Blur the image, then add a really gaudy Unsharp Mask.
- Can You Wear a Contrast Collar Shirt Without Looking Gaudy?
- Yes, critics sometimes call Punjabi weddings ostentatious, gaudy or sexist.
- They took out all their gaudy jewelry and cosmetics.
- And those gaudy team stats are all pre-COT.
- Cheetah known for his gaudy fashion and braggart attitude.
- Nothing too bright or gaudy, just simple and stylish.
- Cheap clothing etc gaudy shameful showy situations Unseemly.
- Try Michigan Stingers and Fishlanders in gaudy colors.
- We had not stumbled on a tawdry little fix or two.
- How to make wedding video look fresh, modern and not tawdry?
- She and Suky Tawdry conspire with Peachum to entrap Macheath.
- Similar, less tawdry courier services were provided within department stores.
- I in order to ask Cliffy what "Tawdry" meant.
- Synonyms, Antonyms, Derived Terms, Anagrams and senses of tawdry.
- The once unstoppable force was grounded by tawdry scandal.
- Treatment of the Natives was often tawdry too.
- Meaning and definitions of tawdry, translation in Sinhala language for tawdry with similar and opposite words.
- Meaning and definitions of tawdry, translation in Afrikaans language for tawdry with similar and opposite words.
GAUDY vs TAWDRY: QUESTIONS
- Should I read Gaudy Night Before I read other Sayers books?
- Are Balenciaga's promotional images on Tmall'gaudy'and'insulting'?
- N/A