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Garish   /gˈɛrɪʃ/   Listen
adjective
Garish  adj.  
1.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." "In... garish colors." "The garish day." "Garish like the laughters of drunkenness."
2.
Gay to extravagance; flighty. "It makes the mind loose and garish."





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"Garish" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dog beside her sprang up and barked. The sun was just dropping below a bank of fiery cloud, and a dazzling and garish light lay on the red undulations of the heath. As she stood up she suddenly perceived the figure of a man about a hundred yards off emerging from a gully—a sportsman with his gun over his shoulder. He had apparently just parted from the group with ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... desirable impressed him with its cynicism. Not that he doubted the virtue of many of those forlorn ones who gayly tripped their feet over rough boards, and drank tea or ginger ale and filled their pockets with bar checks to make a living as best they might, but because the whole garish, rough, drink-laden, curse-begrimed atmosphere of a camp ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... in token of being still unmarried. She seemed much captivated with little Agnes. No wonder, for, in the simplicity of a pure white dress, and with her fair curls streaming down her cheeks, unadorned save by one little blush rose, she looked like an ethereal spirit dropped into the midst of the garish party. ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... before, ministered in mute gravity to the service of the household. No spot could be more beautiful,—no solitude less invaded. To the mysterious knowledge of Zanoni, to the harmless ignorance of Viola, the babbling and garish world of civilised man was alike unheeded. The loving sky and the lovely earth are companions enough to Wisdom and to ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... veil aside in order to enjoy the cool and fragrant air, and as she stopped and regarded me doubtfully where I sat, I saw her beautiful face, undefiled, now, by make-up and unspoiled by the presence of garish Eastern ornaments. Nom d'un nom! but she was truly a lovely woman! My heart went out in sympathy to the poor Grand Duke. Had I received such a mark of favour from her as he had received, and had I then been scorned as now she scorned him, I ...
— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer


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