(a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
(a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(2) I told them that the ladies prefer a man in a suit to one in baggy trousers, with visible underwear and garish "trainers".
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) The resort, the party and even the coal mines are all co-branded, with a trademark background colour of garish bright yellow.
(5) The Telegraph reports : "Brighton was criticised for its 'right-on' attitudes, awful parking and clubbers wearing garish outfits.
(6) Mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk Too many Negroes, it was said, showed off the wrong things: their loud voices, their brash and garish ways; their gift for popular music and dance, for sports rather than the humanities and sciences.
(7) Kabul For the crowd gathered for a second day of festivities at one of the Afghan capital's garish wedding halls this afternoon there was widespread cynicism at the news of Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize .
(8) At 38, she still looks like a little girl: beautiful, garish, loud, a handful.
(9) The garishly designed camera mount complete with huge straps has faded into obscurity after launching to big press at the end of 2012.
(10) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
(11) Dozens of trams, lit up as trains, planes and cruise ships, rattle underneath miles of garish light bulbs, dozens of arcades playing every kitsch anthem there has ever been, from Agadoo to the Nolans, while families in daft hats eat candy in the shape of giant penises.
(12) Dortmund are a fortnight away from the start of the new Bundesliga season and started without their German World Cup winners but that was no excuse for Klopp, who appeared on the touchline in a garish yellow baseball cap to berate his players.
(13) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(14) It has been called garish, ugly and doomed but the musician Will.i.am thinks fashionistas will persuade Americans to love his $475 iPhone camera accessory.
(15) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(16) The Mexican, best known for his garish jerseys, managed to score on 35 occasions when playing as an attacker during his career in the Mexican league and the MLS across the border.
(17) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(18) In Sheffield, Our Cow Molly’s garish pink vans have become a common sight as the dairy delivers its free-range milk to the city’s doorsteps.
(19) Here he is on Sonia and Robert Delaunay's paintings of 1912-14: "Others were intent on exploiting colour too, notably Matisse and Kandinsky, but the Delaunays made great paintings out of nothing but colour; soft-edged slices and shapes of colour that give each other rhythm and life on the canvas, vibrant colours without garishness, affirmative visual statements."
(20) Crude, barefaced, garish, gimmicky - yet joyous and exuberant like a funfair or a day at the seaside - at first glance, the art of Tim Noble and Sue Webster consists merely of cheap thrills and end-of-pier illusionism.
Garnish
Definition:
(v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
(v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
(v. t.) To fit with fetters.
(v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
(n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
(n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
(v. t.) Fetters.
(v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Up to 80% of inmates’ earnings, however, can be garnished to go toward room and board, victim restitution, child support and mandatory savings.
(2) Even where meat or fish appears it is not as the star of the show but, in a neat reversal, more as a garnish.
(3) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
(4) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(5) In January, the WA corrective services minister, Joe Francis, described serving jail time to pay down fines as the “soft option” and announced “tougher” penalties, including the option of garnishing welfare payments to pay off unpaid fines.
(6) The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices.
(7) Looking at it, there was nothing special about this one – a plain roll in a plastic package, no salad or garnish, a little too much mayo.
(8) Sprinkle on top of your curry as garnish and serve with rice.
(9) Divide between plates and garnish with a little lick of extra virgin olive oil, if you like.
(10) He said the state government was also in talks with the federal government about “having the authority to garnish wages from welfare”, saying “that may be one way of trying to get money off people”.
(11) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
(12) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
(13) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
(14) 8 To serve, flood four plates with the sauce; put two red mullet fillets on each plate, skin-side uppermost, and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.
(15) Here are a few ideas to get you started sautéed courgette flowers chorizo with potatoes shredded chilli-smoked chicken slow-cooked pork confit of pork poached and shredded chicken, cooked in mouthwatering moles stuffed chillies beans gently cooked with spices and aromatics grilled fish Arrange the table with taco fillings, salsas and garnishes of your choice.
(16) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
(17) Top with the broad beans and garnish with the remaining chopped mint.
(18) Dishes are delicately garnished with flavour-packed herb snippets and bright pink or purple edible flowers.
(19) Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.
(20) There is a batter base, an obligatory cabbage filling and quite strict garnishes – but otherwise, the rest of the ingredients come down to what's at hand.