garish (adj.)
- affected
- blatant
- blinding
- brazen
- bright
- brilliant
- cheap
- chintzy
- colorful
- convoluted
- crude
- dazzling
- declamatory
- effulgent
- elevated
- extravagant
- flagrant
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flaring
- flash
- flashy
- florid
- fulgent
- fulgid
- fulsome
- gaudy
- glaring
- glary
- gorgeous
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- harsh
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- labyrinthine
- lofty
- loud
- lurid
- magniloquent
- meretricious
- obtrusive
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overwrought
- pedantic
- pompous
- pretentious
- raffish
- raw
- refulgent
- resplendent
- rhetorical
- screaming
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- shameless
- showy
- sonorous
- spectacular
- splendent
- splendid
- stilted
- tall
- tasteless
- tawdry
- tortuous
- vivid
- vulgar
Hide me from day's garish eye.
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
