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Flaunting vs Garish - What's the difference?

flaunting | garish |

As adjectives the difference between flaunting and garish

is that flaunting is that flaunts; showy or gaudy while garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

As a verb flaunting

is .

As a noun flaunting

is the act by which something is flaunted.

flaunting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That flaunts; showy or gaudy

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is flaunted.
  • * (Joseph Conrad)
    • Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend

    garish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
  • :
  • *
  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • *2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Futurama , season 5, episode 16, Fox Broadcasting Company
  • *:Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish .

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