showiness
61dazzle — verb /ˈdæzəl/ a) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street and was run over. b) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with… …
62glitz — noun garish, brilliant showiness See Also: glitzy …
63peacockery — noun Gaudy showiness …
64razzle-dazzle — noun Glitz, glamor/glamour, showiness, or pizazz; schmaltz. The big musical number at the end didnt have quite the razzle dazzle they had hoped …
65whoop-de-doo — 1. interjection Exclamation indicating excitement or enthusiasm. Whoop de doo!, yelled a surprised Conrad as the large engine ignited in front of them. Thats the biggest thrill of my life. 2. adjective Causing or marked by excitement, enthusiasm …
66show — vt showed, shown, or, showed, show·ing: to demonstrate or establish by argument, reasoning, or evidence must show a compelling need for the court action show cause: to establish by reasoning and evidence a valid reason for something if a debtor… …
67pretense — I (ostentation) noun affectation, affectedness, airs, artificiality, blatancy, bravado, demonstration, display, empty show, false appearance, false show, fanfaronade, flagrancy, flashiness, flourish, fuss, garishness, gaudiness, glare, glitter,… …
68ornate, ornamental — Ornate means elaborately or excessively adorned, dressed, or displayed. It means showy, pretentious, or ostentatious : This richly carved furniture is ornate. Ornamental has a related meaning of decorative, but it does not imply showiness,… …
69affectation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… …
70big talk — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,… …
