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adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

Fuzzynyms (100)

jet, squirt, spurt, spirt

n. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

rush

n. a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"

outburst, burst, flare-up

n. a sudden intense happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning"

gaudery, pomp

n. cheap or pretentious or vain display

show

n. a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"

publicity

n. the quality of being open to public view; "the publicity of the court room"

hustle

v. pressure or urge someone into an action

press, push

v. make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby; "`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman"

fly

v. move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place"

clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

scramble

v. to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after them"

scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle

v. to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off

v. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

fly, wing

v. travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly"

fly

v. be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying"

flee, fly, take flight

v. run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled"

hurtle

v. move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by"

flit, flutter, fleet, dart

v. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"

run off, run out, bolt, bolt out, beetle off

v. leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

sprint

v. run very fast, usually for a short distance

forge, spurt, spirt

v. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

zoom

v. move with a low humming noise

streak

v. run naked in a public place

travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip

v. move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"

run

v. move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store"

run away

v. escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"

crash

v. fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

fold, fold up

v. become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"

crash

v. make a sudden loud sound; "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"

bump

v. dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"

crash

v. move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed the gate"

fling

v. move in an abrupt or headlong manner; "He flung himself onto the sofa"

lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust

v. make a thrusting forward movement

throw

v. move violently, energetically, or carelessly; "She threw herself forwards"

gallop

v. go at galloping speed; "The horse was galloping along"

jump, leap, jump off

v. jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

jet, gush

v. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"

sporty

adj. appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport

inelegant

adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

loud

adj. characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

crass

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

gauche, graceless, unpolished

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

lower-class, low-class

adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society

aureate, florid, flamboyant

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

unsophisticated, unworldly

adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

uncomplicated, unsophisticated

adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

Synonyms (8)

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

indelicate, off-color, off-colour

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

ostentatious, pretentious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

Antonyms (7)

tasteful

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

modest

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

simple

adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

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