showiness

Historical Examples

• Lila was shocked and awed by her friend's showiness and indifference.

  IT and Other Stories

  Gouverneur Morris

• "Showiness" is common in every trumpery village in the land.

  Village Improvements and Farm Villages

  George E. Waring

• Showiness such as that of the big, black-haired, blue-eyed Irishman is enough to "put out" the light of any one else!

  Miss Million's Maid

  Bertha Ruck

• In point of showiness of stores and bustle, the streets of Philadelphia are far behind New York.

  Travels Through North America, v. 1-2

  Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach

• Gaud′iness, showiness; Gaud′y, an English university feast or festival.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)

  Various