Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being showy; pompousness; great parade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
showy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extravagant elaborateness
Etymologies
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Examples
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"There is a terrible distaste in France for that kind of showiness," says Poirier.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010
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Maybe he should have gone on with that kind of showiness, as if to insist that he, too, is a genius.
Rabbit Undone Berman, Paul 2001
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Not only does Kapper avoid the typical mistakes that betray a first-time feature director-and the showiness which is often the other option for debut-directors of some competence-every sequence is staged with the touch of a veteran: shot composition, lighting, cutting, coverage, scene structure, props that don't feel borrowed from some high school, settings that feel like part of the real world ... real Ohio weather.
ChristianCinema.com - Faith Affirming and Family Approved Entertainment 2009
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In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on.
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In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on.
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Nekkid girls and boobies alert, distasteful showiness of much skin, and they all wanna fight each other in order to be the Queen of wherever the heck they are.
Anime Preview: Spring 2009 First Impressions – Batch 1 « Undercover 2009
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This allows for a bit of showiness, and actually happens to be the area which does appeal to the various areas of male readership and viewership.
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John Madden's film, from a script by Matthew Vaughn, is lean and to the point, a solid job of moving the action forward and keeping you in the moment without frills or showiness.
Marshall Fine: Review: The Debt Marshall Fine 2011
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Banks, but without the showiness that sometimes mars Banks' fiction for me.
Archive 2010-02-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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Banks, but without the showiness that sometimes mars Banks' fiction for me.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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