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showy

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1. showy - Adjective

2. showy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? Donna Tartt

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. Rick Warren

Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it. Dennis Muren

Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. Henry Walter Bates

Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that "Western Civilization” disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals ... A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples. Che Guevara

Showy clothes attract most. Latin Proverb

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