Adjective
- 1. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, tasteless (vs. tasteful)
- usage: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- 2. cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry, inferior (vs. superior)
- usage: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
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