garish

Example Sentences

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The man is dangerous and clownish, boorish and fascinating, as crude as a dirty joke and as garish as a casino.

From Seattle Times

In the decades that came after, they pivoted from presenting themselves in galleries to making large photographic assemblages in a trademark garish style.

From New York Times

Junior enters the funeral in a garish, pink-and-purple cowboy outfit — a choice that makes sense later when he is represented as a boy wearing the same costume, being held and then rejected by his mother.

From New York Times

To them the Russells are vulgar robber barons who came from nowhere, outfitted their garish palace with castoffs from European aristocracy and must never entire their social circle.

From Salon

Second place receives an especially garish and noisy rubber chicken, a very thin one, as if Giacometti sculpted poultry; it’s complete with metallic-yellow plucked-looking “skin,” a sort of scolding demeanor, and an almost frightening bleat.

From Washington Post