Lexic.us

Definition of Flashily

1. Adverb. In a meretricious manner. "The boat is meretriciously decorated"

2. Adverb. In a fancy colorful manner. "He dresses rather flamboyantly"

Definition of Flashily

1. adv. In a flashy manner; with empty show.

Definition of Flashily

1. Adverb. In a flashy manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flashily

1. flashy [adv] - See also: flashy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashily

flashcube flashcubes flashed flashers flashes flashest flashflood flashfloods flashforward flashforwards

flashgun flashguns flashier flashiest flashily (current term) flashiness flashinesses flashing flashing collar flashing pain syndrome

flashingly flashings flashlamp flashlamps flashless flashlight flashlight battery flashlight fish flashlights

Literary usage of Flashily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Human Side of Retail Selling: A Textbook for Salespeople in Retail by Ruth Leigh (1921)
"If a flashily dressed woman asks to see " a petticoat to wear under a light, ... Next, you will use judgment in showing the type of petticoat a flashily ..."

2. The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Complete by Charles Dickens, Thomas Power James (1873)
"... with such a swagger in his gait, and dressed so flashily, that a stranger would instantly set him down for a prize-fighter who had recently had a streak ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"... and dressed flashily; at 22 married an indolent but fairly respectable man in her native town, and tried to restore herself to a social position, ..."

4. Publications by Mississippi Historical Society (1918)
"... and he dashed along like a boy on his first pony, invariably followed by his big Indian orderly flashily dressed in the garb of his tribe. ..."

5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"An ill- omened-looking man, flashily dressed, and rude in demeanour, was sitting behind a table, two men in front were addressing him, the rest of the room ..."

6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"When you get tired of them in the temples and take a trip on the river, you find idol giants, flashily painted, stretched out side by side on the shore. ..."

7. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"... during the service ; the third was a foreign-looking person, very flashily dressed and sporting a yellow-headed walking-stick, and much cheap jewelry. ..."

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