Gaudily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a gaudy manner.

    "Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily"."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a tastelessly garish manner wordnet

Synonyms

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blatantlyflagrantlygailygarishlygarishlytawdrily

Example

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"Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily"."

Etymology

From gaudy + -ly.

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