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garish

[gair-ish, gar-] / ˈgɛər ɪʃ, ˈgær- /


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Garish sheeny purples, jelly bean blues and lots of acid color mixed with gold chains, thick collars and caps worn to the side.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022

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 notices inform in five languages that fresh caviare is received each day.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen




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