Garish
adjective
Too bright, colorful, or showy.
He was wearing a garish suit that hurt my eyes.
Often appears as...
- garish colors
- garish clothing
adjective
Too bright, colorful, or showy.
He was wearing a garish suit that hurt my eyes.
Often appears as...
- garish colors
- garish clothing
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Garish often implies something is in poor taste or excessively flashy, suggesting a lack of sophistication or subtlety.
The restaurant's garish neon signs clashed with the quaint charm of the street.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
Use 'garish' to describe things that draw attention due to being overly bright or clashing colors.
The dancers' garish costumes made it hard to focus on their performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For Formality
Avoid using 'garish' in formal situations; it might indicate a harsh or critical judgment.
For the dignified event, avoid anything garish in your attire.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Garish often implies something is in poor taste or excessively flashy, suggesting a lack of sophistication or subtlety.
The restaurant's garish neon signs clashed with the quaint charm of the street.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
Use 'garish' to describe things that draw attention due to being overly bright or clashing colors.
The dancers' garish costumes made it hard to focus on their performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For Formality
Avoid using 'garish' in formal situations; it might indicate a harsh or critical judgment.
For the dignified event, avoid anything garish in your attire.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Garish often implies something is in poor taste or excessively flashy, suggesting a lack of sophistication or subtlety.
The restaurant's garish neon signs clashed with the quaint charm of the street.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
Use 'garish' to describe things that draw attention due to being overly bright or clashing colors.
The dancers' garish costumes made it hard to focus on their performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For Formality
Avoid using 'garish' in formal situations; it might indicate a harsh or critical judgment.
For the dignified event, avoid anything garish in your attire.
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Spiky Dinos PIPE National...
the dinosaur with obvious functions and turning them into garish baffling appendages whose purpose is the stuff of mystery and controversy but as always with evolution there's a method to the madness
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Spiky Dinos PIPE National...
the dinosaur with obvious functions and turning them into garish baffling appendages whose purpose is the stuff of mystery and controversy but as always with evolution there's a method to the madness
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Quote examples
Francis Lawrence
American Producer
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
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Daniel Hannan
British Politician
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Clive Lewis
I've got uncles who wore garish stuff, you know, electric blue polyester suits, and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path, he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable, but never sharp.
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Roisin Conaty
I like garish things: I like the 1970s and 1960s, and country music - that big-hair look. I don't go for nudes or beiges. My hair's naturally black - I bleach it. I don't go for subtleties.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less monochrome; it's the very definition of garish.
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Paula Deen
American Chef
Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
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Francis Lawrence
American Producer
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
Quote examples
Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
Quote examples
Daniel Hannan
British Politician
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.
Quote examples
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Clive Lewis
I've got uncles who wore garish stuff, you know, electric blue polyester suits, and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path, he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable, but never sharp.
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Roisin Conaty
I like garish things: I like the 1970s and 1960s, and country music - that big-hair look. I don't go for nudes or beiges. My hair's naturally black - I bleach it. I don't go for subtleties.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less monochrome; it's the very definition of garish.
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Paula Deen
American Chef
Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
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