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Showy

Showy meaning

Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye. | Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display. | Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).

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Example sentences (20)

He loves a showy bake – and a showy Hawaiian shirt, too.

Origanum pulchellum is known as showy marjoram or showy oregano.

Above the tree line, Alpine flowers are especially showy to attract the relatively few insects that live at high altitude.

However, Laurie said while the name sounded showy the poisoned quartet were the complete opposite.

It feels obtrusive and showy, an unnecessary addition to a story that does not deserve such a meticulous process.

The production is not showy, but is solid in all respects.

What’s most endearing about the movie is the fashion in which it isn’t overly showy with its relatively high concept premise.

Yet it didn’t feel showy: He was not too famous to hide, not too self-conscious to resist doing what he does almost unthinkingly, which is use his body to perform.

Butterworth writes sprawling, talky epics with ensembles in the double digits, three-hour run times, and lots of room for showy speeches.

She teamed the showy top with a pair of baggy beige trousers and heels.

The darker chrome certainly helps but the GV80 Coupe's overall aesthetic leans a little into the showy realm, at least in my opinion.

They’ll be represented in a playful way, not in a showy way.

Another Melbourne-based creative said she felt a "weird pressure" to auction a piece to raise funds, even if it "feels insincere and showy to do it".

Everyone will try to sell their big showy houses and get something practical.

For decades, the brand was synonymous with professional American men's wear, its somewhat boxy suits framed as a less fashion-centric riposte to the more structured English tailoring and the more showy Italian style.

Google’s internet balloons — like Facebook’s failed attempt at internet-beaming drones — might be pointlessly showy pieces of equipment where conventional cellphone towers are better suited.

I don’t want to be like, “I’m 50!”’ She assumes the gravelly American accent of a showy Hollywood grande dame and high-kicks her leg from the sofa to demonstrate.

Showy to be sure, but there are spots in the Griesbach Central Park that offer height and perspective for those long shots.

Director James Mangold does a perfectly satisfactory job of keeping those elements in the picture, but he's also out to deliver something that's got a lot of showy kineticism.

She writes of the difference between the showy black New Yorkers and the more reserved Bostonians who are not quite ready to flaunt their diamonds.