(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.
Meretricious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
(a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the hangover of a meretricious general election.
(2) Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced it as this "meretricious, misleading work".
(3) To pretend otherwise is self-indulgent and meretricious.
(4) The campaign against next week's election of police commissioners is meretricious.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) Of course, even thinking in these crude competitive "scoresheet" terms is a very un-Serious thing to be doing, and the admirers of 12 Years a Slave may have a sinking feeling that it will not be properly rewarded in the tinselly, meretricious, un-Serious Oscar world.
(7) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(8) Almost like the protagonist of a Victorian novel, Sharif was overtaken by his own success, to the extent that in order to service the debts incurred by gambling and a playboy lifestyle, he was thrown back on accepting any work that came his way, and entered a downward spiral into trivial and meretricious movies.
(9) Churchill's grandson, the Conservative MP Winston Churchill , wrote to Armstong worried that "my grandfather's wartime diary appears to have fallen into the hands of this meretricious historian, David Irving."
(10) Novels that sparkled in the summer sun will seem flashy and meretricious in the sober light of autumn.