Definition of Flashiness

1. Noun. Tasteless showiness.


Definition of Flashiness

1. n. The quality of being flashy.

Definition of Flashiness

1. Noun. The quality of being flashy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flashiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashiness

flashcubes
flashed
flashers
flashes
flashest
flashflood
flashfloods
flashforward
flashforwards
flashgun
flashguns
flashier
flashiest
flashily
flashiness (current term)
flashinesses
flashing
flashing collar
flashing pain syndrome
flashingly
flashings
flashlamp
flashlamps
flashless
flashlight
flashlight battery
flashlight fish
flashlights
flashmob

Literary usage of Flashiness

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

1. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"Hence flashiness and ambitious " puffing bravery " in the first instance, and, if ever this is corrected, tame, unmeaning, pointless commonplace to follow ..."

2. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"2 Knack, address.; taste, tact. 3 The inherent wants(of man, animals, or things): 4 Earnest and intent gaze. £5 f. flashiness ..."

3. The U Book: Selling One's Self from $10 a Week to $100,000 a Year by Nilas Oran Shively (1917)
"Many letter writers maintain that all flashiness should be avoided; that it gives a letter the impression of a form letter, merely because of its flashiness ..."

4. Water Quality in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and by J. B. Atkins (2004)
"Specifically, streams in more urbanized areas demonstrate increases in peak discharge and flashiness of flow, as measured by the magnitude of changes in ..."

5. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"The same experiments may be made in artichokes and other seeds, when you would take away either their flashiness or bitterness. They speak also, that the ..."

6. The Sewanee Review by University of the South (1896)
"Travelling Americans may often be vulgar and Frenchmen may often be finicky and flashy, but vulgarity and flashiness are as nothing when compared with the ..."

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