Meanings of garishness in English

There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display.

The prismatic lantern over the door was a mixture of garishness and dust.

Church is serious, not meant for idle play and garishness.

Keynote of lighting scheme - life and gaiety, without garishness.

Was there not a certain garishness about her rich colouring?

Then it is a great glow of soft color, without shadow, but also without garishness.

There were shopping trolleys and signage in lurid neon: all the unashamed garishness of a hypermarket.

He looked over the teaming mass of garishness.

She had behind her garishness a gift for sympathy and a keen intuition, delicacy, and allusiveness.

A lamp, burning with unusual and illegal garishness, gives me light enough to examine my watch.

The red and black setting of the room had a suggestion of Oriental cruelty in its very garishness.

Across his brow a constellation of acne had a new-minted look, its garishness softened by the sepia light.

There was about it none of the garishness, the almost resplendent brilliancy associated with the abodes of many of our neighbours.

Under the lights the entire set sparkled with a tawdry garishness apt to fool those uninitiated into the secrets of photography.

These provide a medium glow throughout the entire room that is pleasing, and avoid entirely the garishness usually associated with such rooms.

Where there might have been the exquisite and delicious simplicity of a Japanese print, he sees the flicker and cruel garishness of a speeding film.