Antonyms for flashy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : flash-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæʃ i |
Definition of flashy
Origin :- "showy, cheaply attractive," 1680s, from flash + -y (2). Earlier it meant "splashing" (1580s); "sparkling, giving off flashes" (c.1600). Related: Flashily; flashiness.
- adj flamboyant, in poor taste
- He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.
- Extract from : « The Cash Boy » by Horatio Alger Jr.
- He had to have his square meal and his flashy flannel shirts.
- Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
- She was a large, flashy woman, wearing a quantity of cheap jewellery.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- His clothes were flashy, and he "sported" several large diamonds.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
- You think you could teach that flashy sister of yours the Vanish?
- Extract from : « Out Like a Light » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- He was not a gentleman, nor yet one of the loud, flashy sort that call themselves so.
- Extract from : « Black Beauty » by Anna Sewell
- Such women as he had known were of nearly one type, selfish, ignorant, flashy.
- Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
- There is the notion that the Press is flashy or trivial because it is popular.
- Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- I'll get a flashy ring to represent the one presented to you by the queen.
- Extract from : « My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson » by George Thompson
- Tchartkóff was apt to indulge in the flashy and the superficial.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 » by Various
Synonyms for flashy
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