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Definition
tastelessly showy
- That settled, they then selected a gaudy array of jackets and slacks regarded as appropriate for what was to be, according to Dick, a Florida honeymoon.2 — Persons Unknown (26% in)
- Actually, their tour, of the Fontaine bleau's gaudy premises went unnoticed, amid the men striding about in Bermuda shorts of candy-striped raw silk, and the women wearing bathing suits and mink simultaneously.3 — Answer (47% in)
- There was no applause, none, and yet thousands of patrons packed the vast and gaudy room-a strange audience, mostly men and mostly Negroes.4 — The Corner (74% in)
There are no more uses of "gaudy" in In Cold Blood.
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