garish

Modifies a noun

• color: For some reason, they come in a wide variety of garish colors.
• sign: Planning for the somewhat garish signs has been declined by Hart at the request of the Parish Council.
• scheme: One of the six BS.100 engines built - the garish color scheme was due to the use of heat sensitive paint for tests.
• shirt: Tim stood up, his garish orange shirt presenting a lurid target.
• clothes: Their nails were dirty and their hands grubby; they wore garish clothes, fake Armani T-shirts and shell suit jackets.
• light: North of the river into the garish lights of Soho toilet soap is not in abundance.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Playback creates a rather garish lighting display from the box.
• too: Although criticized at the time for being too garish, it's a far cry from the bleak functionality of today's Budapest malls.
• little: In fact, in comparison, the colored version is a little garish.
• not: The buildings in the business district east of the harbor were finely constructed in a bold but not garish manner.
• particularly: Episode 4: A New Hope Once the disk is inserted, a couple of copyright screens are displayed in particularly garish colors.
• very: After Mazda won the 1992 Le Mans 24hrs, a very special edition of 24 very garish ( and expensive at around £ 20,000!

Used with adjective complement

• look: If you think the sample to the left looks garish, just wait till you see the fully animated ones on the site!