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Antonyms for flashily

Grammar : Adv
Spell : flash-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæʃ i

Definition of flashily

Origin :
  • "showy, cheaply attractive," 1680s, from flash + -y (2). Earlier it meant "splashing" (1580s); "sparkling, giving off flashes" (c.1600). Related: Flashily; flashiness.
  • As in gaily : adv happily, brightly
Example sentences :
  • The girl was flashily dressed—or over-dressed—in the latest style.
  • Extract from : « Linda Carlton's Island Adventure » by Edith Lavell
  • "If a salesman comes to me shabbily dressed or flashily dressed, I can't give him a fair hearing," she said.
  • Extract from : « How To Write Special Feature Articles » by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
  • A flashily dressed young man, smoking a cigarette, was driving it, and three girls were sitting in the tonneau.
  • Extract from : « Bert Wilson at the Wheel » by J. W. Duffield
  • Through the obscurity Rash could see only that the man was well built, flashily dressed, and that he wore a sweeping mustache.
  • Extract from : « The Dust Flower » by Basil King
  • Toots was found vigorously punishing a flashily dressed negro.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Races » by Burt L. Standish
  • The tall, flashily good-looking man at his elbow straightened up and looked at him with a doubtful expression in his eyes.
  • Extract from : « What's-His-Name » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • There were the flashily dressed crooks, whose work was the haunt of sidewalk, and trains, and the surface cars.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • He was a flashily dressed youth who insisted upon another drink—and another—at my expense.
  • Extract from : « The Statesmen Snowbound » by Robert Fitzgerald
  • He was of medium height, flashily dressed, and had a weak, dissipated-looking face.
  • Extract from : « The Motor Girls in the Mountains » by Margaret Penrose
  • The flashily dressed Hebrew with the cigar still in his mouth was again by the stairway entrance.
  • Extract from : « Windy McPherson's Son » by Sherwood Anderson

Synonyms for flashily

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