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Garishness   Listen
noun
garishness  n.  
1.
Tasteless showiness.
Synonyms: flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz.
2.
Strident color or excessive ornamentation.
Synonyms: gaudiness.





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"Garishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... ample funds and emerged in poverty. Nicholas Perrot and Greysolon Du Lhut were conspicuous examples. It was a highly speculative game. At times large profits came easily and were spent recklessly. The trade encouraged profligacy, bravado, and garishness; it deadened the moral sense of the colony, and even schooled men in trickery and peculation. It was a corrupting influence in the official life of New France, and even governors could not keep from soiling their hands in it. ...
— Crusaders of New France - A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness - Chronicles of America, Volume 4 • William Bennett Munro


Words linked to "Garishness" :   garish, loudness, ugliness, gaudiness, tastelessness, tawdriness, brashness


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