Gar·ish a.
  1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. “The garish sun.” “A garish flag.” --Shak. “In . . . garish colors.” --Asham. “The garish day.” --J. H. Newman.
     Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.   --Jer. Taylor.
  2. Gay to extravagance; flighty.
     It makes the mind loose and garish.   --South.
  -- Gar*ish*ly, adv. -- Gar*ish*ness, n.
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  garishly
       adv : in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly
             decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: tawdrily,
              gaudily]