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garishness Definition


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garish
adj
    1. derog
      Unpleasantly bright or colourful; very gaudy.
      Thesaurus: showy, tasteless, vulgar, gaudy, cheap, tawdry, brassy, loud, glitzy, flashy, glaring, raffish, meretricious; Antonym: modest, plain, quiet.
Derivative: garishly
adverb
    Derivative: garishness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c: from obsolete gaurish, from gaure to stare.



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