as in loud
excessively showy
the wedding guest's thick makeup was garish and unnecessary
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Recent Examples of garish
While a Daiquiri is snappy, the Daisy de Santiago is garish.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
6 June 2026
Her music owned up to being horny, garish, and superficial, but could scan as thin or cheap when held up to other kinds of ethical or political scrutiny.
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Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 June 2026
Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences.
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Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
This is really a series of different phone designs, some quite radically different from each other, all unified by a garish sense of luxury.
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Dominic Preston,
The Verge,
1 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for garish
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
6 June 2026
Her music owned up to being horny, garish, and superficial, but could scan as thin or cheap when held up to other kinds of ethical or political scrutiny.
—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 June 2026
Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences.
—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
This is really a series of different phone designs, some quite radically different from each other, all unified by a garish sense of luxury.
—
Dominic Preston,
The Verge,
1 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for garish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garish
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While the first two seasons often presented Lestat through structured tailoring and muted palettes, Season 3 arrives in a much louder world.
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They were all met with loud cheers on this Juneteenth evening.
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After Tuesday night’s noisy earnings report, FedEx is down around 1% in midmorning trading, off its lows of the session.
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McGee also prioritizes authentic community on platforms like Substack over noisy social media.
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Chawinga, the back-to-back league MVP, has been a top on-field producer for the Current since arriving in 2024 as a relative unknown, despite gaudy statistics at Chinese club Wuhan Jianghan.
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Rewarding other prospects for putting up gaudy stats against lesser competition may not be the fairest way to judge this year’s defensemen class, but those production trends seem to be a factor for talent evaluators.
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“Garish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garish. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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