Sentence examples for to garish from inspiring English sources
adjective
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
- The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
Midcourt logos ballooned in size, sometimes to garish proportions.
Cox & Cox do handsome excluder, which isn't to garish or brightly coloured (£33, www.coxandcox.com).
The Mets' ballpark is a monument to garish advertising, but also a playpen for Jose Reyes, their most exciting player.
Like the city itself, the show is uneven and sprawling, and goes from dark to garish, sexy to monstrous.
From garlic cloves to garish crosses, from holy water to holier pants, lucky undies so old it's only the stubborn under-stains holding them together, the fans responded.
Along the storied avenue, once immune to garish displays of retail desperation, shops of all persuasions are using crimson sale signs as bait to lure in skittish consumers.
It is a shame, too, that O'Farrell delicately avoids melodrama when she pulls family skeletons into the light only to give in to a garish dénouement.
The reference to Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd with regard to the garish neon light installation on the exterior of the Motor City Casino is surely meant to be Dan Flavin.
Is Dorothy's visit to the garish Technicolor Oz really supposed to be a dream (that crushing departure from L. Frank Baum's book)?
You don't have to wear anything garish to get attention -- just be brave and wear a "fun" outfit you were too timid to wear before.
The Kloehns had gone to the Sydney Olympics, in 2000, and made sure to wear garish red-white-and-blue clothing.
