Adjective, : a flashy performance. ,flashy clothes. From Dictionary.com.
Dinner jackets tailored, rings a little too flashily genuine. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
McCorquodale's companions were a pair of flashily dressed young. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Or, more flashily and to support a rival hypothesis, sail the Kon-Tiki. From Wordnik.com. [DI book rebutting Kitzmiller decision - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The flashily dressed dwarf heaved himself to his feet, clomped over to their table. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
A flashily dressed dwarf near her jumped in alarm, his boots clattering on the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
The flashily dressed salesman is remembered by his clothes rather than by his personality. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
Guys who dress too flashily likewise aren't taken seriously--except in the entertainment world. From Wordnik.com. [Why Men Don't Promote Women More] Reference
He was a flashily dressed youth who insisted upon another drink -- and another -- at my expense. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
The second lesson was not to be seduced by the flashily obvious, but to burrow down to the juicy stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Twitter looks chaotic: but don't be afraid] Reference
The flashily dressed MP, who boasts of owning over 500 suits, seemed to have his fate sealed on Monday when the state-controlled. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
His wife, Margie Stanfield, dark-haired, in her early forties, wearing a red and black satin housecoat, was flashily attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
Bravado was all very well and good, but the department's honor rolls were filled with the names of cops who'd died flashily and too young. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
The train was almost ready to go on again, when a woman, flashily dressed, and wearing many diamonds, came bustling up from the parlor car. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
He suddenly dropped his country ways, dressed flashily, and took on, with marvelous aptitude, the customs and manners of metropolitan life. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference
He had a rather rough face and was flashily dressed. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903] Reference
He chose no gaudy colours, or flashily-cut vestments. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
Though you might expect this to be shot as flashily as. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
He was flashily dressed in the mode of the day, typical of his calling. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
From the stairway the flashily-dressed Hebrew looked at the crowd and laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Windy McPherson's Son] Reference
Mrs. Bethune was rather flashily dressed, and evidently intended to make a show. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
He dresses well, but flashily, and is generally plentifully supplied with money. From Wordnik.com. [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference
The place was brilliantly lit up, many-mirrored and flashily ornate in gilt and white. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
It is a fine white marble edifice, with a portico of iron, painted flashily in black and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference
The flashily dressed Hebrew with the cigar still in his mouth was again by the stairway entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Windy McPherson's Son] Reference
There was also a sprinkling of showy young women, attended by undersized youths flashily dressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
Chester glanced at a rather flashily dressed individual who was walking arm in arm with the bookkeeper. From Wordnik.com. [Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune] Reference
Another man, a flashily-dressed fellow, was ahead of Bobby, and he, too, now leaned over Stone and whispered. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man] Reference
While walking, a flashily-dressed young man recognizing Mordaunt, stepped up and slapped him on the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success] Reference
As he made his way over to him he noted that Ernie was flashily dressed, almost to the point of grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
There were the flashily dressed crooks, whose work was the haunt of sidewalk, and trains, and the surface cars. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Unaga] Reference
The tall, flashily good-looking man at his elbow straightened up and looked at him with a doubtful expression in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [What's-His-Name] Reference
Through the obscurity Rash could see only that the man was well built, flashily dressed, and that he wore a sweeping mustache. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
They were not of the flashily dressed sort, but no one would have had to look twice to know that there was money in the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Metropolis] Reference
He was rather flashily dressed, but he had the ease of manner that enabled him to carry his clothed with peculiar unobtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
As they were walking down Washington Street a young man, rather flashily attired, stopped Blodgett, whom he appeared to recognize. From Wordnik.com. [Sam's Chance And How He Improved It] Reference
This last was addressed to a flashily dressed individual -- the same one, in fact, that Grant had seen on a former occasion with Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Himself] Reference
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