(a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why on earth launch a showy new pound coin with so much fanfare, when the real news is supposed to be the UK's superb growth projections, absurdly generous new subsidies for childcare and a thoroughly welcome rise in the income tax threshold, courtesy of Nick Clegg?
(2) It is simply a question of following the steps carefully to produce a brilliantly showy pudding.
(3) Shilton springs a long way to his left to catch the ball – a slightly showy save but still a good one.
(4) Born in 1973 in Honiton, Devon, the future champion was "never showy, but quietly confident," according to her mother, Linda Davis.
(5) The result is a mash-up of 9 To 5, Strangers On A Train and The Hangover, and as usual, Bateman's dry wit is an oasis of calm in a movie full of showy comic turns from Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and others.
(6) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
(7) The same instinct for the simple, the dramatic and the showy governs his approach to recasting school exams, of which his announcement last week on A-levels was the latest example.
(8) "He's very calm and reassuring and he's not showy," said a senior television news executive.
(9) "It's not because I'm being showy or precious," she said.
(10) There will be some showy changes to domestic law, which other EU members will disapprove of, but can tolerate.
(11) I’ll be honest – the whole thing has always just seemed a bit sparkly and showy to me.
(12) By her own admission this week May is not a “showy politician” who courts the media, gossips about colleagues over lunch or spends time in the watering holes of Westminster.
(13) The FA has been buying land next to schools and building pitches: enclosed timber-built, artificial-turfed pitches, paid for by money that might otherwise have ended up in some familiar dead end: unnecessarily showy mega-stadiums, executive salaries, another Bugatti in the garage.
(14) This might tell us more about the company Amis keeps than the views of the general population; especially if you tire of these showy contributions from someone who spends most of his time somewhere else.
(15) In a recent Guardian review, they were deemed "big bold showy headphones ... with lacklustre sound" while What Hi-Fi said they were a "one-trick trendy pony" with sound that lacked detail or articulation.
(16) Consumers are polarised between bargain prices for basic clothes and trading up for more showy clothes – this may change, and Primark’s foray into markets like the USA adds an element of future risk.” At Primark’s owner, ABF, profits before tax halved to £213m.
(17) Meticulously presented, though contrasts of textures and flavours sometimes go too far down the showy molecular route.
(18) It is not a showy cry, designed to elicit sympathy.
(19) It really breathes as it hobbles along, and yet it's never showy nor overly optimistic.
(20) Anthony Lane, writing in the New Yorker, laid his cards on the table: 'If you don't get this cut, if you think it's cheesy or showy or over the top, and if something inside you doesn't flare up and burn at the spectacle that Lean has conjured, then you might as well give up the movies.'
Slutty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm all for adding sparkle to political prose, but not when it means casting one side as a woman, which equals slutty or needy or wrong-headed, which equals nothing like a man.
(2) ), now it seems more like that special time of year when grown women are encouraged to dress as anything they want, as long as it has the prefix of “sexy” or, yes, “slutty.” On one recent Halloween in New York, I spotted a sexy pumpkin, a sexy witch, a sexy chipmunk and a sexy hamburger.
(3) Then a US colleague suggested he look at Daniel Clowes's Ghost World: "I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen: two slutty American teenagers hanging around in diners having weird fantasies about the other customers."
(4) Some of the criticism of Cyrus is typically Madonna-whore , with critics gleefully denouncing her for crossing the divide while secretly revelling in the fantasy that all "good girls" have a "slutty side" aching to get out.
(5) In the end, the consensus would seem to be that the Lib Dems are acting collectively just like a woman – a particularly slutty one, whose favours can be cheaply bought.
(6) Telling people to stop taking photos of themselves if they don’t want to have them bounced around the internet is the equivalent of telling women not to dress slutty if they don’t want to to get “victimised”.
(7) A safe contraceptive and a cancer vaccine were both held up for years because of fears they would make women "slutty", and anti-choice legislators and activists insist that that abortion providers are in the "business" of promiscuity – and use that accusation as a way to defund critical health care providers like Planned Parenthood.
(8) And we are often just that graphic and hopeful and vulnerable and slutty as those four characters.
(9) The senators portrayed her as being, as one of her detractors so delicately put it, “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty”.
(10) And when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a joke about her love life at the Golden Globes , she started going on about that, too, saying that there was "a special place in hell reserved for women who don't help other women", which was a bit ironic, given how many of Swift's songs place her in the role of victim of other terrible slutty types.
(11) Click here to view Danielle Gibson and Alexandra Fiber started making Srsly because "we didn't want to play 'Slutty Waitress #4' or 'Bitchy Girlfriend' on someone else's project."
(12) Her expertise is wide-ranging, from policing your eating habits through her own Anti-Diet Diet (complete with Physical Hunger v Emotional Hunger chart and admonishments only sporadically to indulge in "slutty brownies") to fashion, which doesn't exclude styling for her dog, Custard (" Custard couture ").