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tastelessly showy
- About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills.Chapter 4 (27% in)
- He was rather sorry he had come, till Lady Narborough, looking at the great ormolu gilt clock that sprawled in gaudy curves on the mauve-draped mantel-shelf, exclaimed: "How horrid of Henry Wotton to be so late!Chapter 15 (22% in)
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