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  • ...and garish furniture that looked like it had been scavenged from several disco-era yard sales.  (source)
  • The islands, sealed in blackness a moment before, were a blaze of garish light.  (source)
    garish = excessively bright
  • At each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane, courtesy Tyndal's Hardware Co. (You-Name-It-We-Sell-It).  (source)
    garish = tastelessly showy
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  • She was wearing makeup, including a garish shade of green eye shadow.  (source)
    garish = tastelessly showy
  • These kids had shown up with a garishly painted plastic robot that was partially assembled from scrap parts.  (source)
    garishly = in a manner that is tastelessly showy
  • During the daytime the gabachos put on phony sombreros, rode rhinestone-garished horses, and applauded one Hat Dance after another.†  (source)
    garished = tastelessly showy
  • Across his brow a constellation of acne had a new-minted look, its garishness softened by the sepia light.†  (source)
    garishness = the quality of being tastelessly showy
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I wonder if maybe she'd chosen it, out of the others, because it was less garish.  (source)
    garish = tastelessly showy
  • To me, the whole effect looked wrong: too large, too green, too garishly ornate.†  (source)
    garishly = in a manner that is tastelessly showy
  • She sees crying as a sign of weakness, a garish appeal for attention, and she won't indulge it.  (source)
    garish = tastelessly showy
  • For a pittance, people could ride nearly anywhere they wanted on a modern, safe, garishly decorated electric railway system.†  (source)
    garishly = in a manner that is tastelessly showy
  • I find a particularly fat clan dressed in garish yellow silk and awful feathers, all enjoying a massive cake.  (source)
    garish = tastelessly showy
  • The sun streamed garishly over the stony face of the famous locality, and under its influence Mary, the daughter of Joachim, dropped the wimple entirely, and bared her head.†  (source)
    garishly = in a manner that is tastelessly showy
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