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garish

/gair-ish, gar-/US // ˈgɛər ɪʃ, ˈgær- //UK // (ˈɡɛərɪʃ) //

花哨的,五颜六色的,花花绿绿的,五颜六色

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
    • : excessively ornate or elaborate, as buildings or writings.
    • : dressed in or ornamented with bright colors.
    • : excessively bright; glaring.

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Examples

  • The last American man to win a round of the World Cup—the sport’s annual premier racing series—was David “Tinker” Juarez, and he did so in 1994, when riders wore ping pong ball-like foam helmets and garish neon racing attire.

  • They stripped us of this prison’s wardrobe, that horrible garish yellow uniform, and we dressed in the clothes we brought.

  • Yet it was hard to know exactly what all these people were doing there, other than taking their place in a kind of Brownian-movement minuet under the cheerfully garish lights.

  • The entire structure has been newly painted in a variety of garish colors.

  • It was like Halloween for a decade, and the colors were garish, and the style was just phenomenal for us to look back on.

  • Named after the British actress Jane Birkin, the handbag has no garish logos.

  • The value of these terms lies in their baroqueness, in the way they pile up upon each other like garish baubles.

  • The extensive wood carvings inside and outside will be painted in garish colors, like this family room shown in a finished home.

  • Two more years have yet to run before that garish and hideous date, prophetic of all that is bright and new and abominably raw.

  • It had a garish blue tunic reaching well below the hips and a black skirt bordered with blue.

  • He could not bear the noise, the garish light, the continued rumble and movement of the street.

  • Damask curtains of old rose and pale green, falling over a widow-shade of yellow lace, softened the garish light of day.

  • Usually, all was silent within its walls when the darkness fell; but this night a garish light flickered under the door.