as in loud
excessively showy
the wedding guest's thick makeup was garish and unnecessary
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Recent Examples of garish
Hedda is nothing if not a showcase for both the star and her director Nia DaCosta, with the latter setting the drama in 1950s English high society and giving everything a garish, gloriously over-the-top aesthetic that suggests Downton Abbey via Baz Luhrmann.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
The movie has the color palette of a garish tricolored ice pop, a jumble of psychedelic turquoise blue and incandescent fuchsia.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Some have also characterized the undertaking — which is taking place amid the government shutdown — as a garish expression of personal vanity.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Someone had once painted the walls a garish ’90s red.
—Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
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Their noise got loudest at night when the city became quiet.—
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Sports radio can be loud and raucous, blaring with bluster and bellowing.—
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Simons also emphasized that December jobs data are among the noisiest of the year and should not be over-interpreted.—
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And then there is the noisy parade of vehicles passing nearby on their way to who knows what?—
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Classic and chic, it’s designed with an oversized silhouette that makes just enough of a statement without looking gaudy.—
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Beck has not put up gaudy passing numbers in the Hurricanes’ two College Football Playoff victories.—
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“Garish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garish. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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