garishness

noun

Definition of garishnessnext
as in spectacle
excessive or unnecessary display the garishness of the enormous statues in the small yard was almost funny

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  1. spectacle
  2. ostentation
  3. flamboyance
  4. pomp
  5. ornamentation
  6. decoration
  7. glitz
  8. luxuriance
Noun
  • Photograph: Anton Petrus/Getty Images Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on January 13.
    Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
  • After all, a movie-like spectacle such as The Mandalorian was probably a better way to get folks excited to sign up for Disney+ in 2019 than, say, a spinoff of The Good Doctor.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of spectacle
Noun
  • The pink-and-brown mansion, often considered a monument to Roaring 20s ostentation, stretches from Lake Worth to the Atlantic Ocean and contains 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, three bomb shelters, a theater, a ballroom and a nine-hole golf course.
    Miami Herasld Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Castel Di Luco, Le Marche, Italy Like many of Italy’s most impressive accommodations, the newly reborn Castel di Luco isn’t a place of ostentation.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of ostentation
Noun
  • On stage at British television’s biggest annual gathering in 2023, Paramount UK content chief Ben Frow recounted the story of his resignation with signature flamboyance.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As originally voiced by Jeremy Irons, Scar had a sinewy, slithery flamboyance that turned him into an unlikely gay icon.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of flamboyance
Noun
  • Dune has the Two Towers issue of being the middle installment in a trilogy, and Gladiator, underneath its CGI pomp, is still a Ridley Scott film — and Sir Ridley hasn’t produced a major Oscar player in nearly a decade.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Then, Samantha Leach will tell us how the television show Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is leading more than a few members of the Mormon church to choose pomp over piety.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
Definition of pomp
Noun
  • Of course, there is improv in the movie, just naturally little ornamentation and stuff.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Suggestions range from temperature regulation to come-hither ornamentation for attracting mates, to tools of self-defense.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of ornamentation
Noun
  • To minimise disruption to day-to-day operations, most of the decorations are installed between 11pm and 7am when the park is closed to guests.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Seasonal cookbooks can be stored with decorations for that holiday Donate extra water bottles Reusable water bottles are great.
    Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of decoration
Noun
  • Yet famous faces aside, Aspen’s lure lies way beyond its glitz and glamor.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The Great Gatsby Bringing glitz and glamor to New York City in a whole new way is The Great Gatsby, which opened at Broadway Theatre in April 2024.
    Emma Kershaw, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of glitz
Noun
  • But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But the Elysian Bar did them one better, augmenting the oysters’ natural luxuriance with thin slices of kumquat and a measured gush of chile-spiked citrus.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
Definition of luxuriance
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