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flashy
[ flash-ee ]
adjective
- sparkling or brilliant, especially in a superficial way or for the moment:
a flashy performance.
- ostentatiously or vulgarly smart; showy; gaudy:
flashy clothes.
flashy
/ ˈflæʃɪ /
adjective
- brilliant and dazzling, esp for a short time or in a superficial way
- cheap and ostentatious
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Derived Forms
- ˈflashily, adverb
- ˈflashiness, noun
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Other Words From
- flashi·ly adverb
- flashi·ness noun
- un·flashy adjective
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Example Sentences
Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.
The flashy businessman who sold her implants, meanwhile, lived a life of luxury.
She's slim, blond and healthy-beautiful, but makes no attempt to be flashy.
The flashy release was emblematic of everything people love—and hate—about the band.
Hugh Jackman has been Wolverine in the movies and the flashy Boy From Oz on stage.
Lily aped the manners of girls who had long since graduated from school and were flashy in their dress and manners.
She was red-haired by courtesy of the local beauty parlor, cuddling up in a flashy little leopard fur number.
Good Heavens, was that uncouth figure the voluble, buoyant, flashy magnate of the old days?
His clothes were flashy, and he "sported" several large diamonds.
Tchartkóff was apt to indulge in the flashy and the superficial.
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