The word garishness is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as an adjective to describe something as too bright or too showy. For example, "The garishness of the disco lights was overwhelming."
Officials worry that their garishness will lower the local tone.
His well-tailored, well-mannered, quiet look of respectability contrasting with the garishness of such mobsters as Al Capone would prove the model for later heads of organized crime.
Shot sumptuously by Bruno Delbonnel and designed by Rick Heinrichs, the look moves between the period dark elegance of Sweeney Todd (inkily metallic night-scapes, as in fine old engravings) and the scratchy baroque of Burton's animations (Bella Heathcote plays a haunted waif straight out of Corpse Bride), with some of the all-American garishness of Beetlejuice.
The quality of the Shore, as it is called, ranges from the urban garishness of Asbury Park to the opulence of Deal and Mantoloking.
Gasping at the stars' enormous pads and rolling acres and their outsized fridges (empty, for the most part, except for the obligatory bottle of Cristal) and snickering at such monumental garishness and infantile taste is all right for the sub-twenty age group that "Cribs" aims at, but it's still not what we fans are after.
Each step discovers a different configuration and an altered mood, inflected by colors on an ably managed scale ranging from clanging garishness to exquisite subtlety.
Then again, the Japanese have always been skillful at tuning out the garishness of contemporary life.
The more cutting charge might be vanity: they seemed overly confident in their lean, well-tailored, Mediterranean allure, and had failed to anticipate the posed garishness of the Paris Match style.
This volume featured photographs of new roads, buildings, and parks — airbrushed to a garishness that was almost obscene.
You may laugh at her garishness, but you applaud her pluck and stamina as she relentlessly pursues a man to whom most women wouldn't give the time of day.
Considerable care goes into establishing the premise, but the film eventually abandons psychological subtlety for hallucinatory garishness, which is too bad.
