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Gaudiness

noun
1.
Tasteless showiness.  Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness.
2.
Strident color or excessive ornamentation.  Synonym: garishness.






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"Gaudiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... scarcely bear looking into. Yet the building is, on the whole, in fresco, mosaic, and sculpture, a veritable treasure-house of contemporary American art. Even in this clear Southern climate, the effect of gaudiness will in time pass off. Fifty years hence, perhaps, when there are no living susceptibilities to be hurt, some of the less successful panels and medallions may be "hatched over again, and hatched different." But many of the decorations, I am convinced, ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

... gum guacum in solution will be found occasionally advantageous; this gum is fairly hard and will lower the colour and prevent too much of an approach to gaudiness, that is, if a highly coloured varnish has been found necessary. When it is desirable to dispense with lac of any kind in the varnish, other materials can be found that will perhaps answer the purpose as well, if not better; a solution of benzoin has no colour sufficient in itself and therefore ...
— The Repairing & Restoration of Violins - 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. • Horace Petherick



Words linked to "Gaudiness" :   ugliness, gaudy, tastelessness



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