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tastelessly showy
- And her dress was never slatternly, never wanton, never garish; she was so conservative in her choice of colors that I remember little in her wardrobe that wasn't black or white, except for some accessories—she had a fondness for red (in scarves, in hats, in shoes, in mittens and gloves).p. 41.2
- It was a stone church, and there was a ground-floor or even underground mustiness to the place, which was overcrowded with dark wood bric-a-brac, somber with dull gold organ pipes, garish with confused configurations of stained glass—through which not a single branch of a tree was visible.p. 25.7
There are no more uses of "garish" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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