garish
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Garish red-gold land iguanas may freeze in place as hikers pass, but blue-footed boobies freely perform their mating dance and sea lions roll around on land, oblivious to intruders.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
Garish and eccentric, Eilat was nothing like anything we’d seen elsewhere in Israel.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2021
They are hoping for a “Proper, Presentable Daughter”; “nothing too Madcap or Garish or Wacky” is allowed in their sleepy neighborhood.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2019
Garish and showy and heavy handed in his taste, he was, to the bone, Elvis himselvis, the kid from small-town Mississippi made inordinately good.
From Time • Jul. 22, 2017
"Garish flowers" and "wild and careless weeds" describe my lack of pruning; but I am glad George Pembroke put them on the "outer," not the inner, borders of my heart.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot
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