Crossword-Solution: GAUDY 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Gaudy superl. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
meretricious.
Gaudy superl. Gay; merry; festal.
Gaudy n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the
paternoster is recited.
Gaudy n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

We have 86 clues for the answer “GAUDY”

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grand feast 1 answer
"___ Night," Dorothy Sayers novel. 1 answer
Cheaply ornate 1 answer
Commercial (director Ritchie) 1 answer
Dazzling, in a bad way 1 answer
Having show without substance. 1 answer
Like Elton John's costumes 1 answer
Like Elton John's stage wear 1 answer
Like Vegas show wear 1 answer
Like a chartreuse leisure suit 1 answer
Like macaws' plumage 1 answer
Like much Vegas stagewear 1 answer
Ostentatiously colorful 1 answer
Vulgarly showy 1 answer
Vulgarly bright 1 answer
Visually tasteless 1 answer
Too flamboyant 1 answer
Showy but shoddy. 1 answer
Overcolorful. 1 answer
Ostentatiously ornamented 1 answer
Loud-looking 1 answer
Like Elton John's outfits 2 answers
EXCESSIVELY showy 2 answers
grand entertainment 2 answers
Way too loud 2 answers
Overly showy 2 answers
Loud and flashy 2 answers
Too showy 2 answers
Like Hawaiian shirts 3 answers
BRILLIANT but shallow or transitory 3 answers
Overdecorated 5 answers
Tastelessly showy 6 answers
Overly ornate 7 answers
Undignified 8 answers
CHARTREUSE RELATIVE 10 answers
BE TOO LOUD 10 answers
jazzy 10 answers
CONSPICUOUSLY AND TASTELESSLY INDECENT 10 answers
A FLASHY SUIT OF EXTREME CUT 10 answers
commercialised 10 answers
meretricious 11 answers
taffeta 12 answers
Chintzy 14 answers
colorful 15 answers
shrieking 15 answers
begilt 16 answers
"Screaming!" 18 answers
Tinsel 19 answers
flashing 21 answers
ornamental 23 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAUDY (5)

Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The walls of this upper end of the hall, as far as the dais extended, were covered with hangings or curtains, and upon the floor there was a carpet, both of which were adorned with some attempts at tapestry, or embroidery, executed with brilliant or rather gaudy colouring.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Virginia took a keen delight in watching the Malays and lascars at their work, telling von Horn that she had to draw upon her imagination but little to picture herself a captive upon a pirate ship—the half naked men, the gaudy headdress, the earrings, and the fierce countenances of many of the crew furnishing only too realistically the necessary savage setting.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
The man was a wreck; but his clothes and his jewellery—in cruel mockery of the change in him—were as gay and as gaudy as ever.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Quotes with GAUDY (3)

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an …
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Doors are funny things. Some lead to somewhere exciting and wonderful, while others lead to the mundane and ordinary. Some, because they are gaudy and ornate, usher us into the land of greed and money. But many look unassuming and plain, yet hidden behind their simplicity one can find love; warmth; a cozy fire; a home cooked meal and a beautiful family. It's these doors I search for in life and it's these doors that I shall find.
Anthony T. Hincks
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So s…
George Gordon Byron Selected Poems of Lord Byron
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Used 48 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).