(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”.