showiness
91pomposity — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution,… …
92pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …
93rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …
94sensationalism — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness,… …
95Wessely, Paula — (1907 2000) Actress. Wessely was praised for the inner life she created for characters she portrayed, particularly as she matured and began to play a wide variety of roles. She began her career at age 19 with the Deutsches Theater in Prague,… …
96swish — Canadian Slang Homemade low quality liquor. Made by taking leftover, used, liquor aging barrels and swishing water in them to absorb the alcohol from the wood. Absolutely terrible. In BC, the British context of swish can be heard, as in slickly… …
97glitz — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, flash[iness], superficiality. See ornament, shallowness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. showiness, ostenation, gaudiness, garishness. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. Brilliant,… …
98foppery — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. coxcombry, showiness, dandyism; see ostentation 1 , vanity 1 …
99ostentatious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pretentious, showy, pompous; see egotistic 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [AWS ten TAY shus] showiness, pretentiousness, overly ornate. Her ostentatious finery drew stares as she entered the room …
100swank — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. spectacle, array, swagger; see display 2 . modif. Syn. ostentatious, stylish, extravagant, exclusive. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. style, ostentation, stylishness, showiness, fashion, flashiness, flamboyance. III (Roget …
