gaudiness
91tinsel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tawdriness, gaudiness, frippery, show; baubles, gewgaws. See ornament, deception, ostentation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tawdry, gaudy, pretentious, fake, glossy, cheap, catchpenny, alloyed, pseudo; …
92vulgarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bad taste Nouns 1. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism; offense, bad taste; inelegance, indelicacy; gaucherie, ill breeding, discourtesy, incivility; coarseness, indecorum, boorishness; rowdyism,… …
93gaudy — gau|dy [ˈgo:di US ˈgo:di] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: gaud bright decorative object (14 19 centuries), probably from Old French gaudir to enjoy ] clothes, colours etc that are gaudy are too bright and look cheap used to show disapproval ▪ gaudy …
94tinsel — [16] Tinsel is etymologically something that ‘sparkles’. Its ultimate source is Latin scintilla ‘spark’, which has also given English scintillate [17]. This was altered in the postclassical period to *stincilla, which passed into Old French as… …
95rinky-dink — adj 1. British cute, neat, smart. This fairly rare sense of the phrase may be based on a misunderstanding of the American usage, or a separate coinage influenced by dinky. 2. American shoddy, makeshift, meretri cious. The phrase probably… …
96flamboyance — flam·boy·ance || flæm bɔɪəns n. showiness, ostentatiousness, flashiness, gaudiness …
97flamboyancy — n. showiness, ostentatiousness, flashiness, gaudiness …
98flashiness — n. showiness, gaudiness, tastelessness; superficiality; quality of being brilliant and dazzling …
99meretriciousness — merɪ trɪʃəsnɪs n. wantonness, lewdness; cheapness, loudness; deception; gaudiness …
100tackiness — n. stickiness, adhesiveness; tastelessness, cheapness, gaudiness …
