showy
IPA: ʃˈoʊi
adjective
- (sometimes derogatory) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye
- Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
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Examples of "showy" in Sentences
- Her style is a bit showy.
- The red or purplish fruit is also showy.
- Its flowers are used in showy tropical arrangements.
- The inflorescence is a head of small but showy flowers.
- Neither the flowers nor the fruit are especially showy.
- The petal is the colorful, often showy part of a plant.
- Flowers are showy white with yellow spots in the spring.
- The courtship ritual, like the plumage, is rather showy.
- The trot is the best gait and is showy with a long stride.
- The flowers are typically resupinate, and often showy and colorful.
- The showy flowers are pendulous with a very large number of stamens.
- Feinmel said Kelley had no regular employment and there was little that could be described as showy about his lifestyle.
- She was neither very brilliant, nor altogether a pretender, but might be described as a showy woman, of slight but popular accomplishments.
- No critics have ever hurled the kind of negative thunderbolts at him that a more obviously "showy" pianist like Lang Lang has endured from the beginning of his international career.
- But plenty were cowboys, too, and upon emerging from the Green Zone they drove in showy clusters of SUVs, nose to tail, cutting off traffic and careening down the streets as if they were taking fire.
- Page 446 used to call my showy butler, died an object of disgust and horror, whilst old Jacob, with whose red nightcap you comically threatened the gay dandy -- lived till the other day, and dying, left 800 pounds behind him!
- So the Coens and I started talking about Tommy Lee and other people that are fun to listen to, like Bill Clinton, and thought about what it would be like if a person had that kind of showy presentation — but was devoid of substance.
- Howland kept getting questions during the tournament about how the gritty, slowdown style was playing in showy, glitzy L.A., and how the region's plethora of high-scoring high school stars will receive recruiting calls from the nation's new defensive powerhouse.