Words similar to showy

Example sentences for: showy

How can you use “showy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Rauschenberg is an amazingly prolific and formally venturesome artist who, over the past 50 years, has nearly always risked aesthetic trespass, producing work deliberately just one degree or two from being merely ugly, banal, kitschy, gimmicky, showy, facile or, of course, excessive.
She has big lips; full, fleshy cheeks; and enormous, showy teeth.
In foreign affairs, after he had crushed the Duke of Milan’s army at Marignano and formed a showy alliance with Henry VIII of England, François I’s European ambitions were halted by the German Emperor Charles V. François even suffered the indignity of a year’s imprisonment in Madrid, following a resounding defeat at Pavia in 1525.
The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.
Perhaps it's all the Zen meditation, which has mellowed his showy Method edges.