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 flashy ['flæʃi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 闪光的, 一瞬间的, 浮华的

  1. Empty pomp or show; flashy display.
    炫耀,虚饰空虚的浮夸或展示;浮华的展示
  2. That new car is Graham down to the ground-all bright and flashy.
    那辆新车对格雷厄姆最适合了——光彩夺目。
  3. He sent them flashy gifts.
    他送他们新潮的礼物。


flashy
flashier, flashiest
[ adj ]
  1. tastelessly showy

  2. <adj.all>
    a flash car
    a flashy ring
    garish colors
    a gaudy costume
    loud sport shirts
    a meretricious yet stylish book
    tawdry ornaments
  3. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

  4. <adj.all>


Flashy \Flash"y\, a.
1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of
brilliancy; transitorily bright.

A little flashy and transient pleasure. --Barrow.

2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous.

A temper always flashy. --Burke.

3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.

4. Without taste or spirit.

Lean and flashy songs. --Milton.

  1. Mr. Alexander, who died in 1964, was an occasional colleague of Mr. Kinley and Red Adair, and I well remember Mr. Adair's visits to our neighborhood in his flashy scarlet Cadillac convertibles.
  2. It will save electricity costs as well and bring companies good publicity. Ms. Elliott also threatens: "Soon holdouts with flashy floodlights will look like slobs to the public and their peers."
  3. The guys who win the awards are the guys who get the flashy roles.
  4. Stock in AMR Corp. shot higher after the company disclosed a letter from the flashy tycoon to Chairman Robert L. Crandall, offering $120 cash for each of AMR's 58.9 million outstanding common shares.
  5. Crucial cost-cutting programs are ahead of schedule, flashy new products are coming out, and the hourly workers have peacefully agreed to an innovative new contract.
  6. At the heart of it is Ron L. Cobb, a flashy, cigar-smoking former legislator who is a well-known lobbyist.
  7. The appeals court reversal was one of several last year that were seen by some as a repudiation of former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani's zealous and flashy prosecutions of white-collar cases.
  8. Pan Am, a trailblazer for decades, has done poorly in recent years, as flashy foreign carriers and U.S. rivals with huge domestic route networks have robbed it of market share.
  9. The Mattel Inc. star is facing serious competition from Jem and the Holograms, a flashy doll rock band made by Hasbro Inc. Jem's creators say she has the social conscience and executive abilities that Barbie lacks.
  10. Like Liberace, she has owned several flashy cars: Her 1988 black Corvette with a piano keyboard airbrushed on the hood is parked outside the hotel, and she is trying to get it moved into the Taj's lobby (Liberace used to drive his flashy cars on stage).
  11. Like Liberace, she has owned several flashy cars: Her 1988 black Corvette with a piano keyboard airbrushed on the hood is parked outside the hotel, and she is trying to get it moved into the Taj's lobby (Liberace used to drive his flashy cars on stage).
  12. Byrd calls the flashy tie his "sine die tie," in joking reference to the adjournment of Congress, "sine die," meaning adjournment with no set date for return.
  13. The feisty opposition group is deeply in debt and has been hard put to combat the museum's flashy P.R. outfit, its expensive lawyers and puissant board.
  14. In fashion terms, jewels of wit and whimsy are taking the place of flamboyant, flashy adornments.
  15. Although the concept may seem flashy and expensive to some, the cost of reproducing more than 300,000 short, lightweight tape cassettes probably compares favourably to the cost of publishing a similar number of glossy documents.
  16. One doesn't expect the chemists at D.Mazai to be flashy, but even the 20-year-old brokers dress down.
  17. It boasts interviews with an impressive array of current and former officials _ including President-elect Bush _ but avoids too many talking-head interviews by blending in news footage and flashy graphics.
  18. There are some differences from the flashy, sometimes gaudy paintings that adorned planes in World War II.
  19. The Vietnamese quarter in the town of Westminster is scarcely flashy; in the county seat of Santa Ana, some of the Hispanic areas look almost impoverished.
  20. As of now, IBM, Apple and Compaq all are fanning customer enthusiasm with recent flashy additions to their product lines.
  21. Optimism also pervades the markets and flashy department stores.
  22. In such an unfriendly atmosphere, a few analysts expect Hanson to make a friendly, medium-sized bid modeled after the Kaiser Cement one, rather than a flashy, billion-dollar "megabid."
  23. Kevin Corcoran, of Franklin, could have been doing an advertisement for the car: "It's extraordinarily flashy and reasonably priced as far as these things go.
  24. The company isn't flashy, but it is a supremely efficient generator of money.
  25. One government went for the flashy, but perhaps ultimately empty, gesture.
  26. That means scaring off visitors whose tramping feet grind Offa's Dyke to dust or whose flashy, off-road jeeps turn ancient bridleways into battlegrounds. But rural life is not that simple.
  27. But eager investors who find the company's promotional flyers tucked in their monthly charge-card bills need to look beyond the flashy headlines.
  28. "When the market was peaking, the airplanes were full of stamp traders," says Mr. Jiang, who is partial to wearing flashy nylon track suits and sparkling white sneakers.
  29. West German bankers opened the doors to a flashy gaming house complete with a pricey drink list, jackets-only dress code, 30 slot machines, and a clutch of gaming tables lined with blue velour.
  30. Up against the fancy footwork of De La Soul and equally mobile Soul II Soul, the less flashy Tone Loc claimed favorite new dance artist.
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