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gaudy

/ˈɡɔ.di/ adjectif B2

En français : voyant, criard, surfait, kitsch

  1. Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. · They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.

Comparatif gaudier · Superlatif gaudiest

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This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 56 · B2
The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of their proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine,--with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 274 · B2
He found the count standing before some copies of Albano and Fattore that had been passed off to the banker as originals; but which, mere copies as they were, seemed to feel their degradation in being brought into juxtaposition with the gaudy colors that covered the ceiling.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 474 · C1

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