(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.'
Tinsel
Definition:
(n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
(n.) Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
(a.) Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
(v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Men dressed as Hindu deities, with tinsel crowns and tridents, wait for their turn on the stage.
(3) Imagine the biggest supermarket you've ever been to, then replace all the food with tinsel, artificial trees and decorations, and you'll be close to the spectacle that Bronner's Christmas Wonderland provides.
(4) Baubles and tinsel lose their shine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sales of Christmas baubles fell.
(5) He’s a great leader, a great Australian and a great prime minister,” howls Reynolds, in a checked shirt, striking white beard and with tinsel around his neck.
(6) Britain’s retailers are hanging out the tinsel and looking forward to a bumper Christmas, with unemployment down, living standards finally climbing and house prices on the rise.
(7) This year, after the turkey and tinsel are put away, why not start small and plot a sustainable course for success?
(8) Ignoring my entreaties that you really didn’t need to dress up to go to a gig, my daughter had her hair tied up with tinsel, her best party dress on and a purple sequined stole.
(9) Silver frost on barbed wire, strange tinsel, sparkled and winked.
(10) So here we are in frosty, socially conscious Poplar, passing tinsel-garlanded forceps to the doughty district nurses of Nonnatus House as they tend to a flurry of imperilled postwar flimflams.
(11) The reason I am so non-judgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural tinsel that adorns the reporting around them is that I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he "went back out".
(12) Like most of his generation, he became infected by the mutant spores of rock’n’roll – Buddy Holly and Little Richard were favourites – but he also loved the tinsel, glamour and artifice of old-time show business.
(13) The duchess sat at a table with a group of children decorating picture frames with stars and tinsel flowers.
(14) Photograph: Alamy After two years of growing sales from 2011, sales of festive products such as baubles, tinsel and artificial Christmas trees dropped almost a third last year.
(15) We stopped, and Susie motioned for Mae to open a gate decorated in yellow Christmas tinsel.
(16) It was bizarre coming to work: there was the big Christmas tree up in the square, and every set was covered in tinsel and Christmas lights.
(17) At full-time golden tinsel exploded from the rafters at the Stade de France and it rained down on to the pitch.
(18) His penchant for pinstripe trousers, Cuban heels and chunky jewellery meant Davis stood out from his fellow BBC correspondents, as did the rumours of tattoos, pierced nipples (office nickname: Tinsel Tits) and a Prince Albert, which he has consistently refused to confirm or deny.
(19) Look under the tinsel in LA, they say, and there's real tinsel.
(20) Sue and Brian Legg, in their 60s, window shopping beneath tinsel banners in the George Yard shopping arcade, couldn't really see what the fuss was about.