gaudy
garish , also: gawdy old use

I'd feel out of place in a gaudy thing like that.

He can see the gaudy something moving down a path.

He is a gaudy young man with white hair and pink eyes.

Then she thought of her ring and looked down at the gaudy thing.

He put a large brown hand against the big man's gaudy chest.

Once it might have been done another way, easier, and more gaudy.

My mother said it was a bit gaudy, whatever that meant.

And already there is a gaudy deficit, maybe 8 points or 10.

Seen from close by, though, it had a certain gaudy attraction.

For a second or two, movement and sound were suspended around my gaudy table.

I now call that the gaudy version of the tree.

The story told of them is that they have become gaudy."

"You can tell that simply by looking at a gaudy scrap?"

The production numbers are gaudy and loud, as they should be.

I took the gaudy shirt from her hands and shook it out.

His only reception was good for a gaudy 21 yards.

"Would this particular big monkey have a rather gaudy face?"

To my eye, these plants are not gaudy but glorious.

One night he came in with some horrible gaudy clothes and told me to put them on.

Whenever anyone looked far ahead on the road, they'd see the gaudy bird.

One of the gaudy local vehicles approached from the south.

And there was his goal, lit up but not gaudy, just ahead on the right.

What a gaudy good time we should have had!

A good many alumni of that gaudy party would be at tonight's dinner.

The additions made since his rise to power were gaudy and seemed out of place.

It was a garish color picture of a place I had not been.

As if anyone would want to fake such a garish thing!

Why did the prints always have to be so garish?

The hotels were garish, but the north side was less so than the south.

He sat down in the chair by the window and looked out at the garish light show next door.

Although she lives in an upscale community, the house is not garish.

Across the wall above the bed was a garish streak of red.

She was small, pretty in a garish way, with painted eyes.

They park the car and go into a building with some garish posters on the wall.

Others are wearing what is called park paint, which can be very garish.

She pointed toward a particularly garish chest on the back wall.

He picked out seven of the most garish ones available and started wearing them to work.

"The design is perhaps rather garish, even for my taste."

Each uniform he wore was more garish than the last.

These bright and garish ships are very popular with Americans.

I can tell you, the original is not half so large as that garish item.

And sometimes it was a matter of making already blazing effects a bit more garish.

As a present garish example, we need look no further than Rambo.

After some searching in that garish room, I found a closet.

Even the garish sword I had left behind seemed to have vanished.

"It could even be plain glass like the other side, but nothing garish," he said.

As if the city needed more garish factories built to separate people from their money.

The stations themselves were also painted a garish sky blue.

Nothing has really changed except for that garish sign outside."

"Let's just say it's a bit on the garish side."