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Strident color or excessive ornamentation
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garishness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being garish.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
garishness \gar"ish*ness\ n. tasteless showiness. Syn: flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz. strident color or excessive ornamentation. Syn: gaudiness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tasteless showiness [syn: flashiness , gaudiness , loudness , brashness , meretriciousness , tawdriness , glitz ] strident color or excessive ornamentation [syn: gaudiness ]
Usage examples of garishness.
It was compounded of the old scars on my legs, of the garishness of the bathroom light, of the lingering soreness in my ribs from being hurled against the Jap truck, of the look of Francine's plastic tile, and a douche bag hanging on the back of the bathroom door, and the scrawniness of the pink towel I would have to use to dry off for bed.