garishly


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gar·ish

 (gâr′ĭsh, găr′-)
adj.
Overly bright or ornamented, especially in a vulgar or tasteless way; gaudy.

[Origin unknown.]

gar′ish·ly adv.
gar′ish·ness n.
Synonyms: garish, flashy, gaudy1, loud, tawdry
These adjectives mean tastelessly showy: garish colors; a flashy ring; a gaudy costume; a loud sport shirt; tawdry ornaments.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.garishly - in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers"
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Translations
بِبَهْرَجَه
křiklavě
glannalega
cafcaflı bir şekilde

garishly

[ˈgɛərɪʃlɪ] ADV garishly colouredcon colores chillones or estridentes
garishly decorated/painted/dresseddecorado/pintado/vestido con colores chillones or con gusto chabacano or (LAm) de manera charra
garishly litestridentemente iluminado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

garishly

[ˈgɛərɪʃli] adv [patterned] → aux motifs criards
garishly coloured → aux couleurs criardes or tape-à-l'œil
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

garishly

adv (pej) dressedin grellen Farben; illuminatedgrell; garishly coloured (Brit) or colored (US) → schreiend bunt, knallbunt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

garishly

[ˈgɛərɪʃlɪ] adv (see adj) → in modo sgargiante, in modo vistoso, in modo abbagliante
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

garish

(ˈgeəriʃ) adjective
unpleasantly bright or showy. His shirts are very garish.
ˈgarishly adverb
ˈgarishness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
At the upper end of the lodge was a kind of hunting and warlike trophy, consisting of two buffalo heads garishly painted, surmounted by shields, bows, quivers of arrows, and other weapons.
Adapting to the recent heat wave, the My Crazy Life star covered her whole body in an garishly bright tan and pulled her blonde tresses into a high ponytail which she lengthened with hair extensions.
I'm the most garishly dressed - I do like a bit of colour, even if it does make me look like a crate of Irn-Bru that's fallen down a flight of steps.
There's a reason that leopard print, once garishly glam, is now a neutral.
Final baked goods often resemble lumpy clumps of dough topped with oozing, garishly tinted frosting.
Culled from the monograph Asylum of the Birds (2014), the photo titled Take Off (above) sets contesting elements--immobilized birds and drawings of birdlike planes in exuberant flight--around a garishly masked person who holds one of the winged creatures in its mouth.
Yes, while our silver-plated serving thingy contained several tasty looking morsels, Seaham Hall had bravely omitted that ridiculous piece of garishly coloured confection contained in every afternoon tea I'd seen until then.
POSING Scammer Hameed with a garishly blinged Mercedes G-Wagen
Crew members clean him up and take him to Guadalcanal where they give him "a dark brown, sugary, rather tasty liquid to drink from a glass bottle slightly tapered in the middle" and "a type of sausage brushed with garishly bright-colored sauce that lies in a bed of oblong bread as soft as a down pillow." I will leave it to the reader to puzzle out what these consumables might be, but I cite them as typically reflective of Krachf's amusingly oblique, wonderful historical style (befitting the exotic tales of that era) and his even more wonderful humor.
What a chance it would have been to rid the street of all those garishly signed establishments which sell food.
Deck The Halls Film4, 7.10pm Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick) a town's unofficial organiser of all things Christmas, is irked when a new family move in and decorate their house so garishly that it can be seen from space, and hilarious hijinks ensue.