What's the difference between flashy and shiny?

Flashy


Definition:

  • (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.

Shiny


Definition:

  • (superl.) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You've got that shiny new promotion and the job looks great - but do you really know what you're letting yourself in for?
  • (2) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (3) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
  • (4) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
  • (5) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
  • (6) The first symptom is usually Raynaud's phenomenon, followed by skin changes; at the beginning the skin is swollen and oedematous, and then becomes thick, taut, shiny and atrophic.
  • (7) But Sky, which has built its business on the back of Premier League football and other live sports, chose Wednesday to talk up its new schedule and technological advances at its own shiny new £330m studio complex in west London.
  • (8) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
  • (9) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (10) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
  • (12) Sitting in a shiny studio peopled with uniformed soldiers, athletes, doctors and more, a heavily bronzed Putin held forth for four hours and 47 minutes, beating his previous record by 15 minutes.
  • (13) Ownership of eight cattle and a shiny steel roof on their wood hut indicates relative prosperity.
  • (14) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
  • (15) 1. pale mucosa; 2. shiny surface and 3. prominent submucosal vessels.
  • (16) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
  • (17) This was made more explicit as the show developed – the addition of shiny PVC jackets in red, yellow and orange had the clean, zesty futurism popular during the decade.
  • (18) Europe’s elites have surely been guilty of letting political idealism run ahead of hard-nosed economics – thinking that by constructing a shiny new set of institutions and rules, they could just legislate away the deep differences between European economies.
  • (19) It has a full operating theatre, with shiny metal and glass equipment.
  • (20) It's causing Kenya – despite all our growth, the shiny buildings, all the nice cars – to head towards failure."