gaudiness
- n tasteless showiness
- n strident color or excessive ornamentation
- I knew it wasn't the time for gaudiness, for elaborate sets and costumes.
- Critics deride the Eurovision Song Contest as a cultural Chernobyl, an ostentatious talent show in which gaudiness and sex appeal have more currency than musical ability.
- STEPPING OUT: Chen Yifei's haute couture is a departure from the drabness of socialism and the gaudiness of sudden wealth.