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单词 showily
释义
showyshow‧y /ˈʃəʊi $ ˈʃoʊi/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • She wore a lot of cheap, showy jewelry.
  • The species is distinguished by its showy white flowers.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He is gorgeous, not strong, but showy.
  • I see her again, very straight, dressed in light colors, not at all showy.
  • Some bowerbirds are bright and showy, but others are drab and excite their females with elaborate shelters instead.
  • Then they returned to their showy vehicles and went racing away with squealing tyres.
  • Though hardly a showy plant, its needle-thin blades look almost silver, especially when covered by a film of dew.
  • Winningham delivers Oscar-caliber work, too, in the less showy but equally complex and demanding title role.
something that is showy is very colourful, big, expensive etc, especially in a way that attracts people’s attention:  an attractive shrub with showy flowersshowily adverbshowiness noun [uncountable]
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