adjective
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gaudy, flashy, or ostentatious
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making a brilliant or imposing display
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The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter
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