Crossword-Solution: SHOWINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Showiness | n. | The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SHOWINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Glitz | 3 answers |
| exhibitionism | 5 answers |
| Flamboyance | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHOWINESS (5)
This did not preclude the immediate discovery that she was some years younger than her visitor, and that under her showiness, her ease, the aggression of her dress and voice, there persisted that ineradicable innocence which, in ladies of her nationality, so curiously coexists with startling extremes of experience.
The simplicity of his phrases, his entire absence of showiness or bombast, made his influence indescribably deep and powerful.
She was dressed with vulgar showiness, and made a lavish display of jewellery, more or less valuable.
Greedy vanity in the more robust, lack of moral courage and firmness in the more sensitive, with a social organisation that aims at a surface dignity and a cheap showiness, are the ingredients of this devil's cauldron.
The poetic style which has thrown off the tinsel showiness of its predecessor does not, however, remain unchanged, for its texture becomes more and more close, and affords conclusive evidence of the increasing influence of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Quotes with SHOWINESS (3)
There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don’t notice at what point that you’re actually overwhelmed by this. There’s no showiness, at all. It’s the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some …
Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you're impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your fancy — — and you occupy yourself with it, and the rest can rot, you don't care about it, you don't even want to look at it. Watch out you don't turn into a fashionable painter. Even now your colors are beginning to cry a bit too loudly. Your drawing is imprecise, and sometimes quite weak, t…
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).