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How to pronounce garish in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
Derivation garishness


garish colors.

Examples of garish

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In fact, she said, she had found the chapel rather dark, its decorations garish.
From the online.wsj.com
One thing he advised is to cut off that garish red velvet bow and throw it away.
From the projo.com
Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish Day-Glo-red posters.
From the time.com
It was a recession Oscar ceremony, shorn of the usual garish production numbers.
From the time.com
Harris Savides's photography looks at once colour-leeched and digitally garish.
From the telegraph.co.uk
This is Trump's world, one that is simply more garish than the world of politics.
From the time.com
If you already have a garish ring, stay away from bracelets that are big in size.
From the theepochtimes.com
In a more stable economy, we might find it garish to wrap light-rail cars in ads.
From the denverpost.com
The kudos will go to some fat guy in a garish outfit who lives at the North Pole.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • Brassy: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
  • (garishly) in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers"
  • (garishness) flashiness: tasteless showiness
  • (garishness) strident color or excessive ornamentation
  • Garish - formed in February 1997 - is an Austrian alternative rock band. After having asserted themselves in the alternative scene inside and outside Austria's borders with their first two records "amaurose pur. ...
  • Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste
  • (garishness) The quality of being garish
  • (adj.) showy, very bright or gaudy