showy
/ˈʃoʊ.i/ adjetivo C1En español: vistoso, ostentoso, jactancioso, aparatoso
- Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
- Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display. · showy flowers
- Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).
Comparativo showier · Superlativo showiest
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He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
At a certain corner he came to a standstill, proposing to himself the question of turning back toward the showy and fashionable restaurant in which he usually dined on the evenings of his especial luxury.
The restaurant was not so showy or pretentious as the one further down Broadway, which he always preferred, but it was nearly so.
Ruby Gillis’s looks are real showy.
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