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GAUDILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaudily mean? 

GAUDILY (adverb)
  The adverb GAUDILY has 1 sense:

1. in a tastelessly garish mannerplay

  Familiarity information: GAUDILY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GAUDILY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tastelessly garish manner

Synonyms:

garishly; gaudily; tawdrily

Context example:

the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers

Pertainym:

gaudy (tastelessly showy)


 Context examples 


Each had a yew or hazel stave slung over his shoulder, plain and serviceable with the older men, but gaudily painted and carved at either end with the others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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