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• n  tasteless showiness
• n  strident color or excessive ornamentation

• The word style seems to have become synonymous with garishness.
• But other insiders assert that the auction, while its public garishness might have mortified Jackie, was her idea.
• In an afterword, the Other Lady praises Austen for the elegant escapism she provides from "the shoddy values and cheap garishness of our own age.

• flashiness
• gaudiness
• loudness
• brashness
• meretriciousness
• tawdriness
• glitz