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Garish   /gˈɛrɪʃ/   Listen
adjective
Garish  adj.  
1.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." "In... garish colors." "The garish day." "Garish like the laughters of drunkenness."
2.
Gay to extravagance; flighty. "It makes the mind loose and garish."





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"Garish" Quotes from Famous Books



... about him on all sides: their many forms closed round him, the garish sunshine bleaching the ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... decorative scheme I had in mind. The kitchen with its ranges I found would be almost quite suitable for my purpose, requiring but little alteration, but the large room was of course atrociously impossible in the American fashion, with unsightly walls, the floors covered with American cloth of a garish pattern, and the small, oblong tables and ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... vulgar thing sunligh'. Art is always superior to Nature. You love the garish day being a gross Philistine, wha'? Now I only live at night. Glorious wicked nigh'. So I make my own nigh'. Wha'? Have some Green Chartreuse—only drink fit for a Hedonist. I drink its colour and I taste its glorious greenness. Ichor and ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren
... express is gliding into Cirencester, the ancient capital of the Cotswold country. How fair the old place seems after the dirt and smoke of London! Here town and country are blended into one, and everything is clean and fresh and picturesque. The garish church, as you view it from the top of the market-place, has a charm unsurpassed by any other sacred building in the land. In what that charm lies I have often wondered. Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole graceful pile, as the eye, glancing down the massive square tower and ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... call, cool, passionless, commanding. She flew up the stairs, closing Jane's door as she hurried by. The door to her mother's room was open. It was brightly lighted. The shade of the lamp had been removed and its garish yellow fell full upon the bed and the strange figure which ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay


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