garishness

  • 51glitter — Synonyms and related words: be somebody, be something, bespangle, blatancy, blink, blinking, brazenness, brilliance, colorfulness, coruscate, coruscation, crudeness, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, extravagance …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 52inflation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 53loudness — Synonyms and related words: amplitude, arsenic green, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, blatancy, brazenness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, earthiness,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54ostentation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, boldness, cheating, chinoiserie, color, coloring,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 55panache — Synonyms and related words: animation, blatancy, boldness, brazenness, brio, chic, colorfulness, crest, crudeness, cultivation, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, eclat, elan, energy, enthusiasm, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, feather,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 56pomposity — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 57pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 58rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 59sensationalism — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 60glitz — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, flash[iness], superficiality. See ornament, shallowness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. showiness, ostenation, gaudiness, garishness. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. Brilliant,… …

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