Webster's English Dictionary

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showy

showy \'sho--e-\ aj 1: making an attractive show : STRIKING  2: marked by 
   ostentation : GAUDY an given to excessive outward display. SHOWY implies an 
   imposing or striking appearance but usu. suggests cheapness or poor taste; 
   PRETENTIOUS implies an appearance of importance not justified by the 
   thing's value or the person's standing; OSTENTATIOUS stresses vainglorious 
   display or parade; POMPOUS suggests an ostentatiousness prompted by love of 
   ceremony or exaggerated sense of self-importance SYN syn SHOWY, 
   PRETENTIOUS, OSTENTATIOUS, POMPOUS me