(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.'
Splashy
Definition:
(a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK's biggest pay TV provider, buoyed by subscriptions that are still rising in the economic downturn, is in bullish mood, spending money while competitors retrench, as exemplified by its splashy 1980s-style advertising for the drama adaptation of Martina Cole's The Take.
(2) It will be the latest improbable chapter in the life story of a man raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist whom the Observer described as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema" .
(3) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
(4) The Twitter IPO's financial impact – for all of its splashy billions – will barely even reach past the golden gate of San Francisco .
(5) John Keats described it as a “splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County”.
(6) "China wants to have good relations with both Koreas … They don't want to go too far with a great splashy meeting [with the South] while things are still off-kilter in the North Korean relationship.
(7) Vancouver Whitecaps , who like Philadelphia started the day with two picks in the top ten, took the athletic, left-footed central defender Christian Dean, as their first pick at number three, while New England, who'd made their own splashy trade for last year's number one spot (where they took eventual regular starter Andrew Farrell), used their fourth pick to take the first attacking player of the day, Georgetown forward Steve Neumann.
(8) I did not want to be in a big splashy romantic comedy with Cher."
(9) It seems that way, based on a nugget from CNN about a new, high profile bus tour planned by Romney next month: But beginning August 10th, Romney will ramp up his campaign operation with a splashy four-day bus tour targeting the largest media markets in several of the states that will decide the November election, CNN has learned.
(10) (He described his piano playing as "splashy and erratic", but he always enjoyed playing for his own pleasure.)
(11) "Cash-rich and with a strong appetite for splashy overseas assets, Qatari [investment] vehicles have lately outshone their counterparts from the region and are projected to carry on with their rapid expansion across the real estate world," said the report by real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
(12) What was important was not splashy plot twists – be it car crash, baby swap, lesbian snog or corpse under the patio – but how characters processed such incidents through the medium of gossip.
(13) Instead, the development that reveals most about Facebook's current mindset was not a splashy acquisition or a media deal: it was the accidental emergence of Facebook Lite – a leaner version of the site that is currently being tested in some countries.
(14) This splashy, gregarious mash-up of a show sees Franzén and fellow dancers in routines that embrace jazz, jump jive and street, as well as ballroom and contemporary dance.
(15) Foxtons North America, as the offshoot eventually called itself, had its own Minis, almost 400 staff, and splashy advertising – such as a giant billboard above a tunnel entrance on the road back to New York City from the smart resort of East Hampton.
(16) This splashy option for two people is only half an hour away by public transport, although its sleepy Søllerød Lake setting makes that hard to believe.
(17) There's the Bible, for starters – the relevant bits can be found in splashy opening chapter.
(18) It would be unilateral, reckless and splashy – trademark Trump.
(19) The dark side to all this splashy success has been diminishing support for small or struggling dance talent.
(20) Local media reported that the leaders’ placing their hands on the globe “officially activated the centre and launched a splashy welcome video”.