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Definition of showy in English: showyadjectiveshowiest, showier ˈʃəʊiˈʃoʊi Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious. 引人注目的；显眼的 鲜艳的花。 she wore a great deal of showy costume jewellery 她戴了许多显眼的人造珠宝饰物。 Example sentencesExamples - Jimmy Carter was not a flashy or showy President, but history judges him as one of America's greatest.
- I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers.
- The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets.
- It seems an excessively showy, very nearly butler-ish display of reticence on everyone's part.
- There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so.
- A variety popular because of its distinctive salmon pink colour is Marcus Graham, which features large, showy double flowers.
- Bloomington is one of the archetypal college towns in the United States, from the gorgeous campus to the showy liberal politics.
- So it's usually a success if you can see that it's sort of not a showy restaurant, and you feel like someone wants to sit across the table and enjoy dinner with you.
- In my experience, treats from the sushi bar at Sakura tend to be nice, fresh, and reliable, if not particularly showy or ethereal.
- They irked her, distastefully bright and far too showy.
- The showy part of the flower is not the corolla but the modified calyx.
- Walking along a river's bend your eye is drawn to a rather large tree with showy white flowers.
- The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy, proving the point that sometimes less is more.
- H. sanguinea ‘Splish-Splash’ is one with showy foliage and bright, showy rose flowers.
- The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed.
- Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
- Their showy flower clusters appear with the onset of warm weather and generally bloom all summer long.
- Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy, extravagant and ostentatious.
- The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today.
- It's yellow-green really because the plants are flowering now, but they're not showy flowers.
Synonyms ostentatious, conspicuous, pretentious, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless informal flash, flashy, over the top, OTT, glitzy, fancy-pants, ritzy, swanky, splashy North American informal superfly, bling-bling US informal dicty
Derivativesadverb ˈʃəʊɪliˈʃoʊəli A career labor advocate, he is also an art aficionado who dresses tastefully if not showily from major fashion labels. Example sentencesExamples - And so one might wonder: If Jesus disdained showy prayer, how would he feel about showily praying politicians?
- You will know many of the images that now begin to parade themselves showily along the walls.
- Lyricism combines with charm, with the soloist's technical virtuosity ever-present, but never indulged in showily for its own sake.
- An excellent, if very showily theatrical show.
noun ˈʃəʊɪnəsˈʃoʊinəs Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness. Example sentencesExamples - But it was his lack of showiness in terms of commitment to sending out ‘honest’ teams, and being straight to players' faces that counted against him in the English top flight.
- His style is crisp and mercifully free of showiness.
- A reticent leader, he acted by means of political machinations and diplomacy and never developed the showiness that had been so typical of his father.
- When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
Rhymesblowy, doughy, joey, snowy, toey, towy, Zoë Definition of showy in US English: showyadjectiveˈSHōēˈʃoʊi Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colorful, or ostentatious. 引人注目的；显眼的 鲜艳的花。 she wore a great deal of showy costume jewelry 她戴了许多显眼的人造珠宝饰物。 Example sentencesExamples - Jimmy Carter was not a flashy or showy President, but history judges him as one of America's greatest.
- A variety popular because of its distinctive salmon pink colour is Marcus Graham, which features large, showy double flowers.
- In my experience, treats from the sushi bar at Sakura tend to be nice, fresh, and reliable, if not particularly showy or ethereal.
- Their showy flower clusters appear with the onset of warm weather and generally bloom all summer long.
- H. sanguinea ‘Splish-Splash’ is one with showy foliage and bright, showy rose flowers.
- There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so.
- Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
- The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy, proving the point that sometimes less is more.
- So it's usually a success if you can see that it's sort of not a showy restaurant, and you feel like someone wants to sit across the table and enjoy dinner with you.
- Bloomington is one of the archetypal college towns in the United States, from the gorgeous campus to the showy liberal politics.
- The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today.
- It seems an excessively showy, very nearly butler-ish display of reticence on everyone's part.
- The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets.
- The showy part of the flower is not the corolla but the modified calyx.
- It's yellow-green really because the plants are flowering now, but they're not showy flowers.
- I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers.
- Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy, extravagant and ostentatious.
- The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed.
- Walking along a river's bend your eye is drawn to a rather large tree with showy white flowers.
- They irked her, distastefully bright and far too showy.
Synonyms ostentatious, conspicuous, pretentious, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless
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