The temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Crawford’s overstated performances, often intelligent but almost never instinctive, remain garishly earthbound. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Am Joan Crawford’] Reference
Captain Hayward stepped into the garishly lit cell. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
CORWIN: And a woman could very well die or is garishly wounded. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2009] Reference
At last, the tunnel ended in another big, garishly lit chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
But at this hour surfaces showed garishly, and obscured the depths. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
It was open, arched, and garishly colorful, like an arcade entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
No one appreciates a garishly overdone outdoor light display more than me. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
Expecting darkness, I walked into a garishly lit room crowded with sailors. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
And now they were beating him very severely, those four garishly dressed men. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
To me, the whole effect looked wrong: too large, too green, too garishly ornate. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
Rain hissed about them as the dark ravine was garishly lit by a stab of lightning. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
A couple of miles further on a neon sign blinked garishly through the heavy drizzle. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Sea]
Sputtering holograms glowed garishly across its front, promising eternal bliss inside. From Wordnik.com. [Step into Chaos]
There was a thud, thud, thud of bombs just to the east, and flares lit the windows garishly. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
It also reflected in her open eyes and shone garishly on the two neat holes in her forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The crush]
I entered between the garishly opulent gates superbuild fortunes and tuition hikes had purchased. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
(They're garishly overproduced stories that mimic "Star Wars," assorted Westerns and "Spartacus."). From Wordnik.com. ['Button' Bends Time Into Grand Fable] Reference
I'm okay though, I've been enjoying the nippy weather here in SoCal .... sunny but garishly windy today. From Wordnik.com. [moschikat Diary Entry] Reference
By the front doors was the garishly lit alcove that housed One-Armed Billy, the world's biggest slot machine. From Wordnik.com. [Loaded Dice]
Matthew Yglesias is a bit, well, weird (in a good way), and his garishly-purple personal site says weird to me. From Wordnik.com. [Hot or Not: Long Live the Ugly Web] Reference
John McCain's surrogates have been out in force this week, garishly waving the POW card in America's face again. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Friedman: McCain's Use of POW Card Makes Medical Records Fair Game] Reference
Staffers looked at each other awkwardly unsure whether they should laugh too garishly at the president's mother. From Wordnik.com. ['Take My Position Paper, Please'] Reference
With as much dignity as he could muster, he began rewrapping himself with his frayed folds of garishly hued apparel. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
The walls of that room were covered by a garishly flowered wallpaper that couldn't have been much uglier if it tried. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
The spongy bellies of fat grey clouds raced overhead, almost low enough to touch, garishly tinted by the hellscape below. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Company]
Isaac says he's smitten with the garishly great color; even his home collection is infused with neon upholstered furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Christy Ferer: Halloween in Heels] Reference
Carl dressed and was lea by Allin around the blossomed partition to a garishly lit chamber, reminiscent of a SoHo art gallery. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
When I turned to confront her, she grinned wildly up at me with a garishly painted mouth and urged, 'Sample my fruit, young sir?. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
His garishly dreamlike paintings were as constant a presence on SoHo gallery walls as those of his pals Julian Schnabel and David Salle. From Wordnik.com. [Expressionism Italian Style] Reference
The mental trick had worked; Sulla came back to the present moment and the garishly painted, clumsily executed group of Apollo and Daphne. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
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