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flashyflash‧y /ˈflæʃi/ adjective informal   - a flashy new sports car
- a flashy young businessman
- Ellwood drove an Audi - fast but not flashy.
- He is emotional, outspoken and flashy.
- I slid the flashy, long-barreled, wooden-gripped revolver back into the black hip holster.
- Our presence is not intended to be flashy and we want to minimize our risks while maximizing our opportunities.
- The flashy gear turned you, however unwillingly, into a sort of pied piper of Western materialism.
behaving in a way that makes people notice you► flamboyant someone who is flamboyant behaves, performs, or dresses in an extremely confident, and often unusual way that makes other people notice them: · He is one of football's most flamboyant characters.· a flamboyant French businessman· a young woman in flamboyant clothes ► dramatic if you do something in a dramatic way, you do it in a loud or noticeable way that is intended to get people's attention: · She raised her hands in a dramatic gesture of despair.· Rumpole produced the evidence with a dramatic flourish.· Rosa made a dramatic entrance into the room, wearing a tiny red dress. ► ostentatious doing things or buying things only in order to show people that you have a lot of money or because you want them to admire you or be jealous of you: · I thought of framing the letter, but that would be ostentatious.· They built themselves huge, ostentatious houses. ► flashy someone who is flashy likes to show off about how much money or how many expensive things they have - use this when you do not approve of someone who does this: · a flashy young businessman ► pretentious doing something in a way that is intended to show how artistic or well-educated you are, in order to make people admire you - used to show disapproval: · I found Susie unbearably pretentious.· He has a pretentious style of writing, using four very difficult words where one simple one would do. NOUN► car· He owned a haulage company and always had a flashy car and loads of money.· Other than that he lived modestly, without flashy cars or new homes. 1big, bright, or expensive, and intended to be impressive – used to show disapproval:  large flashy cars2someone who is flashy wears expensive clothes, jewellery etc in a way that is intended to be impressive – used to show disapproval: a flashy dresser |