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Leper vs Garish - What's the difference?

leper | garish |

As a noun leper

is a person who has leprosy.

As an adjective garish is

overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

leper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who has leprosy.
  • A person who is shunned; a pariah.

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    garish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
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  • *:"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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