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Definition of Flashiness
1. Noun. Tasteless showiness.
Generic synonyms: Tastelessness
Derivative terms: Flashy, Flashy, Garish, Gaudy, Gaudy, Loud, Meretricious, Tawdry, Tawdry
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
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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