Garish

The film is a simple story cloaked in garish splendour.

It's a garish dress she's got on.

The colour of the bedlinen is a bit garish, but it'll fade in the wash.

His garish new suit was teal.

Some drawing-rooms are all new and garish, and look as if they were never used except for an hour or two in the evening, and some are grand and stiff like a hotel, and others are all sweet and chintzy and home-like, with lots of plants and a scent of pot-pourri in china vases.

He was wearing a garish tie.

The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.

"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."

On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.

Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish.