Definition of garish
garishly
adverbgarishness
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Examples of garish in a Sentence
the wedding guest's thick makeup was garish and unnecessary
Recent Examples of garish from the Web
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By night, fancy cars came and went, and when the glass double doors swung open, garish Korean dance music, popular with a middle-aged crowd, escaped.
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Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer used their garish showmanship to get the crowd going.
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Fans of the website McMansion Hell enjoy it as a way to laugh at garish, overbuilt homes.
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But in the locker room East players made fun of the garish Warriors color scheme, and Iverson refused to put on the kicks.
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The 1965 French New Wave film, by director Jean-Luc Godard, is a hybrid of film noir and existentialist road movie in garish Technicolor.
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Think garish orange walls, dated golden oak woodwork and a somewhat bizarre layout — a holdover from its conversion from a two-flat many years earlier.
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There was a kind of garish, unpleasant quality to the sound before, and that wasn’t entirely due to the hall.
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There was a kind of garish, unpleasant quality to the sound before, and that wasn’t entirely due to the hall.
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