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splashy

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splash·y  (splsh)
adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est
1. Making or likely to make splashes.
2. Covered with splashes of color.
3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy.
splashi·ly adv.
splashi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.splashy - characterized by water flying about haphazardly
2.splashy - marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
flamboyant, showy
ostentatious, pretentious - intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
3.splashy - covered with patches of bright color
covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"


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"This Captain Raleigh," says Fuller, "coming out of Ireland to the English Court in good habit (his clothes being then a considerable part of his estate), found the Queen walking, till, meeting with a splashy place, she seemed to scruple going thereon.
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He heard the patter of a rain-shower on the window panes behind the lowered blinds, and below, far below, in the artificial abyss of the square, the deadened roll of wheels and the splashy trotting of a horse.
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It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.
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