flashily

Example Sentences

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No one was remotely surprised when Rob Marshall’s flashily entertaining Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptation won six Oscars, including best picture and best supporting actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones, so riveting as the murderous chorine Velma Kelly.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

He was a flashily dressed showman, eager to win prizes in the air.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022

A flashily cut affair, this makes much of experiences “out in the field”, which seems to be Goop for “in the astral treatment suites of complete charlatans”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2020

It’s insolent yet earnest, flashily inventive and brazenly aggressive, joining seemingly boundless male-adolescent bravado with primal fears and a nearly pious dream of higher purpose.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 18, 2016

He was flashily dressed in a brand-new Fila tennis outfit, which fitted rather tightly.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane