(a.) Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
(a.) Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
(a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
(a.) Without taste or spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
(2) We stayed together for several more years, until I swapped her for a flashy Mazda coupe.
(3) Sarkozy is charismatic and bling-bling; all flashy watches, Aviator sunglasses and supermodel wife.
(4) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(5) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(6) She has a way of owning the room, but she's not flashy.
(7) Flashy university buildings: do they live up to the hype?
(8) "She is the opposite of the flashiness of Rich Ricci [the Barclays investment banker who topped the City pay league in 2011].
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio’s campaign launch video Rubio spoke on a conference call with donors before a flashy political rally set for Monday night in Miami, stage-managed for maximum exposure.
(10) There is a flashy new restaurant block, high-rise apartments, and department stores where you can buy Dior cosmetics, Siemens washing machines and blue and yellow polka-dot swimsuits.
(11) You would struggle to find a second lord of the Treasury who promised a flashy and opportunistic budget.
(12) Similarly, gay SNL star McKinnon’s Ghostbusters character is never explicitly outed, but a few lines hint at her sexuality, while director Feig gave a “grinning, silent nod” in an interview with the Daily Beast when asked if she was gay, prefacing it with the comment: “When you’re dealing with the studios ...” And even the flashy reboot of Tarzan was set to have a kiss between Christoph Waltz’s flamboyant villain and an unconscious buffed-up Alexander Skarsgård , but it was chopped after test audiences were said to be left perplexed by it.
(13) Yes, I like clothes and flashy things, but I know why I have all these clothes: football."
(14) Now you can taste it.” Then she vaped, luxuriantly, on a flashy chrome tube.
(15) They would not splurge money on vanity projects, on “free” schools, sports stadiums, high-speed railways, and flashy science and arts centres.
(16) No big blast this time around, just what amounts to a routine groundball for the flashy fielding Kozma at short.
(17) Since its arrival in 2003, the titles have relied on flashy hyper-violence, Michael Bay explosions and ludicrous plotlines.
(18) It isn’t the most flashy cultural manifestations of gentrification, the cereal cafes and the hipster baristas, who are the most influential actors in this process.
(19) As the inspectors are "now obsessed with making lessons 'fun' and 'interactive', through endless games and group work and the use of flashy technology", traditional teaching methods are penalised, even if they engage the pupils and get good results.
(20) As a result, no one in the team could be described as flashy: Stone, like most of the company's employees dresses in the uniform of new media – T-shirt, carefully messed-up hair and black-rimmed glasses.
Fleshy
Definition:
(superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
(superl.) Human.
(superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(3) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(4) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
(5) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
(6) Analyses of various parts of carpophores of B. edulis, Suillus luteus and Amanita muscaria indicate that in all three species the stalk contains less selenium than the fleshy part of the cap.
(7) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(8) Three types of trabecula septomarginalis were encountered as previously described by Bortolami in ox: - Mostly (66%), the trabecula septomarginalis is a short and thick fleshy column.
(9) Three patients had passed fleshy material in the urine while in one the diagnosis was established by excretory urography.
(10) And fleshy, human, and deeply subjective stuff it is too.
(11) The consistent features include a fleshy web extending across the anterior aspect of the cubital fossa, absence of the long head of the triceps, limitation of full elbow extension and missing skin creases over the terminal inter-phalangeal joints of the fingers.
(12) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
(13) On the rare occasions we manage to catch up with him, we find ourselves peering into the sort of face you usually find on banknotes: brisk moustache, chin like a fleshy landslide, eyes so piercing they could blow up the east courtyard's unfinished multi-million-pound toilet block.
(14) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
(15) A 50-year-old woman had a fleshy lesion in her right buccal maxillary sulcus.
(16) A family is reported in which the mother and 4 of her 6 children are affected by a constellation of abnormalities including mental handicap, abnormal facies, short stature, soft fleshy hands with tapering fingers and skeletal abnormalities.
(17) The amount of S(eq) in the latter products as well as in fruits packed in unsweetened juice equalled that of the fleshy substance of ordinary sucrose-sweetened products.
(18) Therefore, the present study is restricted only to the fleshy leaf extracts [Jindal et al.
(19) This is particularly true of benthic species which conceal themselves by flattened form, fleshy protuberances or protective coloration, or which bury in the sediment or take refuge in burrows.
(20) The deep part arises by large fleshy laminae from the deep surface of the erector spinae aponeurosis.