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Definition of Flashiest
1. flashy [adj] - See also: flashy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashiest
Literary usage of Flashiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... must be pronounced to be most of a charlatan ; of all the writing in our
literature, his is the hollowest, the flashiest, the most insincere. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1877)
"At last, and in good hour, we come to his farewell, which is to be a concluding
taste of his jabber- ment in law, the flashiest and the ..."
3. Milton by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1900)
"... a dolt, an idiot, a groom, a rank pettifogger, a presumptuous losel, a clown,
a vice, a huckster-at-law, whose " jabber- ment is the flashiest and the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... the flashiest affair ever you clapped eyes on." beauty burst in upon us.
In this, however, we were disappointed. The old people now set off in search of ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"... she resolved; and then she made a sorrowful progress over the rest ot the
house, and found it to be fully furnished in the flashiest style. ..."
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