gar·ish

(gâr′ĭsh, găr′-)

adj.

Overly bright or ornamented, especially in a vulgar or tasteless way; gaudy.

[Origin unknown.]

gar′ish·ly adv.

gar′ish·ness n.

Synonyms: garish, flashy, gaudy¹, loud, tawdry
These adjectives mean tastelessly showy: garish colors; a flashy ring; a gaudy costume; a loud sport shirt; tawdry ornaments.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	garishness - tasteless showiness brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, tawdriness, loudness, meretriciousness tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
	2.	garishness - strident color or excessive ornamentation gaudiness ugliness - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses

Translations

بَهْرَجَه

křiklavost

skrigen

Grelligkeit

e-î sem er glannalegt/yfirgengilegt

grellhet skjærende kvalitet

krikľavosť

cafcaflı olmasüslülük

过分艳丽

garishness

[ˈgɛərɪʃnɪs] N [of clothes, décor] → chabacanería f, ordinariez f, lo charro (LAm) ; [of colours, light] → estridencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

garishness

n (pej) → grelle or schreiende Farben pl; (of colours, illuminations) → Grellheit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

garishness

[ˈgɛərɪʃnɪs] n → vistosità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

garish

(ˈgeəriʃ) adjective

unpleasantly bright or showy. His shirts are very garish.

ˈgarishly adverb

ˈgarishness noun

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If you've got a penchant for watching clips of early '90s Cardiff games on YouTube, you might be able to spot me on the last gate of the Bob Bank closest to the Grange End, the garishness of my oversized club-issued shellsuit not dulled by the graininess of the footage.

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The joke is about the macabre garishness supposedly attendant on American tastes, but it also has the effect of recalling Poe's fixations with sex and death, of conflating the two within a desired body.

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The hill men were delighted, not because the blankets represented protection against the elements, but because of their garishness, and our seventy good dollars, we soon found out, had gone to ornament our black boys and not to keep them warm.

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He added: "The best term to describe the crown is as a piece of kitsch, usefully defined as 'something considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality'.

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We have neon and general garishness, annoyingly chipper cruise directors and staff who are only on the ship because no one else will hire them.

Shivers under the sun

Get him started by, say, mentioning the proliferation of cookie-cutter row housing built in the "Mediterranean" or "California" styles by some megadeveloper; and brace yourself for hours of rant as to why the theme-park garishness of these foreign architectural styles was totally unsuited to our climate, our lifestyles, our culture-a horrible blight on the otherwise beautiful landscape of our beloved motherland.

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Despite the garishness, brutality, and squalor of many passages .

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