How To Use Showy In A Sentence

_Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Rotate showy plants, such as orchids, begonias, and bromeliads, into your garden for color all year.
He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers.
For fine white flowers we have the showy achilleas in variety and gypsophila paniculata, called baby breath as a common name. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916

Heleniumshave a longer and more showy flowering period if rejuvenated from year to year.
They're not too overt, too ostentatious or showy. Times, Sunday Times
It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Pulsatilla, the pasque flower, is a real stunner with showy lilac flowers and you'll find an excellent specimen at Glasnevin in the Sensory Garden.
The native four-o'clock, also known as showy four-o'clock, is a great plant to add to your dryland Garden.
The various "choreographic" movements seen at piano recitals may sometimes be showy rather than useful, but they all grow out of this same aim: the control of acceleration. 'Playing the Piano'
It also gets a really first-rate, unshowy production from Rapture.
Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
The group of gossiping girls looked on warily, expectantly, waiting for her to upchuck all over her showy dress, but she didn't.
It is not a noisy and showy beggarliness, nor is it a mask for laziness and neglect.
Though you might not guess it by looking at them, they are flowering plants, producing numerous tiny flowers without showy petals.
And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips.
It's yellow-green really because the plants are flowering now, but they're not showy flowers.
Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous.
Inside Man is a rare pleasure; a heist movie that relies on its wits rather than showy pyrotechnics. Times, Sunday Times
Acalypha wilkesiana, the Fijian fire plant, is the parent of many modern cultivars and is in itself a showy ornamental.
This showy snailfish lacks the purple stripes displayed by other specimens.
Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy, proving the point that sometimes less is more.
It was perfect: it was comfortable, it was fashionable, it was sexy but now too showy.
This is mondo cool because the package comes packed in dry ice and it's a very showy gift.
The groom, who had a roguish side, pulled Alison into a showy clasp, and the priest stepped back and led the quick applause for the couple, forestalling the biddies who would later complain that the ceremony had lacked dignity.
Mrs. Dods put on a joyous countenance at this proposal, protesting that all should be done in her power to make things agreeable; and while her good friend, Mr. Bindloose, expatiated upon the comfort her new guest would experience at the Cleikum, she silently contemplated with delight the prospect of a speedy and dazzling triumph, by carrying off a creditable customer from her showy and successful rival at the Well. Saint Ronan's Well
It is so straightforward that it is, in a sense, unshowy. Times, Sunday Times
And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight.
Iowa, is the solidago speciosa, or the showy golden-rod, which sometimes grows five, six or seven feet high in rich soil, with a stout, smooth stem and big, smooth leaves, the lower ones broadly oval and sometimes from four to ten inches long and one to four inches wide. Some Summer Days in Iowa
Good access to the nectar is important - showy double blooms and hybrids don't provide a good perching or feeding source.
Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike.
A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch.
Everything about it was just brilliant, brave, but beautifully unshowy. Times, Sunday Times
Grieg's piano music can be showy, but it never is gratuitously so; while it can be a showpiece for the performer, the music usually has other priorities.
They have the biggest collection of showy rings, bracelets and necklaces. The Sun
A fire burning low in the grate was the sole light of the apartment; its beams flashed mockingly on the somewhat showy Versaillese furniture and gilding here, in style as unlike that of the structural parts of the building as it was possible to be, and probably introduced by The Woodlanders
Female flowers are usually less showy than those of males. Winter Garden Glory
Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy, extravagant and ostentatious.
It seems an excessively showy, very nearly butler-ish display of reticence on everyone's part.
The large, showy flowers are actinomorphic, with a bowl-shaped corolla made up of 5-8 pinkish-red petals.
In fact, he reportedly blew it out with a stunning, if showy, throw-out at third.
Polley is unshowy and controlled in the star part, damping down her intelligence, beauty and almost all of her emotion for the role.
It produces showy, tubular flowers in summer and is able to set seed if pollinators are available.
The results are less showy but more experimental. Times, Sunday Times
The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today.
Wildflowers include miner's lettuce, lacepod, a buttercup, and the showy fiesta flower (a member of the same family as waterleaf).
She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further. Sister Carrie
Howland kept getting questions during the tournament about how the gritty, slowdown style was playing in showy, glitzy L.A., and how the region's plethora of high-scoring high school stars will receive recruiting calls from the nation's new defensive powerhouse. USATODAY.com - UCLA to key on defense again
Singers belted it out, indulging in showy flourishes and fast vibrato that sound odd now, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Morrissey is magnificent at portraying this kind of soulful Everyman, and his unshowy performance chimes well with Ashfield's dreamy yet determined maternalism.
[Greek: 'kouroi anarriptein ala pêdô,'] in their showy uniforms, push out from Ryker's; some bound upward past the oyster-beds of Fair Haven, away up among the salt-marsh meadows, where the Quinnipiac wanders under quaint old bridges among fair, green hills; some for the Light, shooting out into the broad waters of the open bay, their feathered oars flashing in the sunlight; some for The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Unostentatious and unshowy, their simplicity belies their deep resonance.
Walking along a river's bend your eye is drawn to a rather large tree with showy white flowers.
The primary reason for not designating critical habitat for showy stickseed is because the species has been repeatedly collected for many decades.
Green darners are large, showy dragonflies with silvery iridescent wings.
The huge showy double and semi-double flowers are real eye-catchers - many of them grow to more than three inches across.
Her dress was too showy for such a formal occasion.
Director Gore Verbinski does an efficient, unshowy job of laying out the story and giving Depp and Geoffrey Rush room to chew the scenery.
If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers.
Picardie writes about her parents with deep, unshowy affection and a certain reticence - entirely appropriate, and a pleasant novelty in these days of compulsory gut-spilling.
As I watch, a humming bird stops in midair and turns its attention to the wooly bluecurls and the showy penstemon.
The huge flowers are very showy with laciniated or fringed edges.
Even the gang members are perfect, sipping beers in their cheap, showy suits against a background teeming with transients and bums.
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
Sharon Day, a Broward County committeewoman and secretary of the Republican National Committee, called Greer pompous and showy. Jim Greer, Former Florida GOP Chair, Must Have Thought He Was Jack Donaghy
Their frolics were a gossip's tale; their showy vices were now as tarnished as their wardrobe, and both were hung out of sight. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
As its name depicts, these carnations are very showy when planted as part of a mixed flower border or as colorful edgings against evergreen shrubs.
From inside his pleasant but unshowy house in the Northamptonshire town of Wellingborough, Ebdon opens his electronic gates.
There is something brutal about this showy naysaying, something fierce. Times, Sunday Times
It starts blooming in midsummer with huge panicles of showy, white florets surrounding smaller fertile flowers.
There is nothing more showy in a spring garden than Polyanthus primroses.
After albums from showy, baroque Rufus - at the Grand Opera House in York on Monday - and his heart-on-her-sleeve sister Martha, the parents are back.
DAVIESIA, JACKSONIA, and two or three dwarf species of ACACIA, one of which was very showy, about three feet high, with very small oblong, sericeous phyllodia, and globular heads of bright yellow flowers, produced in great abundance on axillary fascicles; also a very fine leguminous shrub, bearing the habit and appearance of Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
All the rest -- acres of pasture, cleared and grassed, stretches of fertile ground, blocks of noble timber still uncut -- had passed through the hands of mortgage holders, through bank transfers, by devious and tortuous ways, until the title rested in Horace Gower, -- who had promptly built the showy summer house on Cradle Bay to flaunt in his face, so old Poor Man's Rock
(buttercups) and aconitum (aconite), all of which prefer cool weather and have showy blooms. Drupal
I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers. Planet Debian
No critics have ever hurled the kind of negative thunderbolts at him that a more obviously "showy" pianist like Lang Lang has endured from the beginning of his international career. Albert Imperato: The Art of Collaboration and the Meaning of "Pictures Reframed"
I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers.
We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes. Peace and beauty - roaming the hills around Morelia
There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so.
Bacon plays all the pieces with a rather understated, unshowy technique, where the music is always of prime importance.
The most beautiful is the showy lady's-slipper (_Cypripedium spectabile_), whose large, pink and white flowers rival in beauty many of the choicest tropical orchids. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
I noticed he was dressed in formality that night, forgoing his wonted loud, showy colors I normally saw him in.
She seems quiet and reserved, carefully fingering the showy flowers with a wistful air of abstraction, lost in her own thoughts.
The huge showy double and semi-double flowers are real eye-catchers - many of them grow to more than three inches across.
He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
Being a natural, unshowy performer with a tremendous singing voice, she shifts all the more convincingly from lowly sibling to elegant diva.
White trilliums are also known as large-flowered trilliums, snow trilliums, showy trilliums, grand trilliums, and white wake-robins.
There is nothing showy about the place, but therein lies its charm.
Director Zhang-Ke's style, though, is relentlessly unshowy, deadpan and undramatic: everyday life is worthy of time and consideration.
This will provide written and undeniable proof as to who does what - and who does less while making a big showy fuss about it. Times, Sunday Times
In my experience, treats from the sushi bar at Sakura tend to be nice, fresh, and reliable, if not particularly showy or ethereal.
The Black Goby is familiar, tamable, but voracious; the Gray Mullet is very hardy, but also rather savage; the Wrasses are some of the most showy fish, -- called in some parts of the country Cunners, -- and of these, the Ancient Wrasse, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
Kalotaszeg is famous for its slow ornamented tunes, its swirling csardas couple dances and its showy male display pieces and there were many dancers in the audience to bring them to life. Evening Standard - Home
Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
She was neither very brilliant, nor altogether a pretender, but might be described as a showy woman, of slight but popular accomplishments. Autobiographical Sketches
As far a cross-trainers are concerned, there are four models available, all characterized by decisive and showy styling accented by a richly-detailed vamp.
They have the biggest collection of showy rings, bracelets and necklaces. The Sun
This is despite a large, showy floral display and the dichogamous system of the species.
Anthemis, Michaelmas daisies, heleniums, shasta daisies and rudbeckias all have a longer and more showy flowering period if rejuvenated from year to year.
She is a most improbable superstar, this small, talkative, unshowy, and resoundingly English mother of two.
Big, beautiful showy flowers have a tranquil effect that soothes you at the end of a long day.
They have the biggest collection of showy rings, bracelets and necklaces. The Sun
So it's usually a success if you can see that it's sort of not a showy restaurant, and you feel like someone wants to sit across the table and enjoy dinner with you.
It was very heavy and not very warm, orna - mented with a showy pattern in black disks, and trimmed around the collar and the edges with some kind of black wool that "crocked" badly in snow or rain. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
The floor of the house was strewn with fresh hemlock boughs, bunches of showy wild flowers adorned the walls, and the hearth was filled with huckleberry branches and epilobium. Travels in Alaska
Compact, unshowy and lacking any real star quality. The Sun
Pleasant yet unexceptional in appearance, he had a breezy, all-American manner and an intimate, unshowy voice.
It was very heavy and not very warm, ornamented with a showy pattern in black disks, and trimmed around the collar and the edges with some kind of black wool that "crocked" badly in snow or rain. The song of the lark
Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
Inside Man is a rare pleasure; a heist movie that relies on its wits rather than showy pyrotechnics. Times, Sunday Times
Their showy flower clusters appear with the onset of warm weather and generally bloom all summer long.
The funeral is a showy affair, and its orchestrations are designed mainly for the benefit of the townspeople.
This is an intimate, real, unshowy, deeply emotional, truly special performance.
There were no upheavals, no debts, no squalid cookless hiatuses between intervals of showy hospitality; the household moved along on lines of quiet elegance and comfort, behind which only the eye of the housekeeping sex could have detected a gradually increasing scale of expense. The Best Man.
They're not too overt, too ostentatious or showy. Times, Sunday Times
The male is tiny, far less showy, and has a unenviable time of it. Times, Sunday Times
The third movement brought some much needed rhythmic excitement, while the fourth, with its extended "alap", or free solo section – elaborated with unshowy virtuosity by Shankar's daughter and pupil Anoushka – afforded a tantalising glimpse of the sitar's real magic. LPO/Murphy
The flowers are subterminal inflorescences with numerous long, hairlike purple or red stamens, which give the plants a handsome, showy appearance. 3 The Plant
A bract is a modified leaf at the base of a flower, and is often more showy than the flower itself - the red bracts of poinsettias are another example. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
The many flowers are formed on a long pendulous spike and are very showy.
Paranephelius is composed of acaulescent herbs with showy, yellow capitula, sessile in the center of a basal rosette of leaves, often with bullate leaf surfaces.
Phacelia is a genus made up of about 150 species, It is well represented in our mountains where several phacelias are quite showy plants.
She's resolutely unshowy and, it has to be said, hugely charismatic. Times, Sunday Times
Big, beautiful showy flowers have a tranquil effect that soothes you at the end of a long day.
The scarlet lychnis and its many varieties are nearly past, but the large-flowered, Haag's, and others of that section, are in their prime, and showy plants they are. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
His is a terrific, unshowy, versatile talent. Times, Sunday Times
The furniture is a mismatched mix of unshowy antiques and midcentury mod. Times, Sunday Times
The dinghies on our lake were serviceable, not showy: hand-me-downs with dented motors and countless coats of varnish.
Showy phalaenopsis (moth orchids) have long-lasting spikes of white and pink flowers; these make perfect table centrepieces. Times, Sunday Times
Her role here is just as brassy and showy, although it doesn't feature any singing.
If you are wary of using glitter, a wash shimmer will give you the same effect without looking too showy. Times, Sunday Times
(showy crotalaria or rattlebox) and Indigo fera hirsute (hairy indigo) can reduce populations of most type of nematodes. Chapter 10
He seems to have inserted an inordinate amount of showy dancing to please the cosmopolitan Viennese audience.
They were very unshowy people, they did a job, got on with their lives, enjoyed their lives - it's very sad. "
But two less showy projects hold their own. Times, Sunday Times
An unshowy mastery of empathetic guitar-lines lends depth and variety to the rawness: shattering echoes, sinister decayed sputterings, plaintive refrains.
If you are wary of using glitter, a wash shimmer will give you the same effect without looking too showy. Times, Sunday Times
The interior is very smart, not too fussy or full of showy gadgets or dials.
From the rest of his well-groomed, showy appearance, it was evident his baldness was a chagrin to him. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
To skeptics, though, the jazzed-up Bloody Marys are like fashion-brand flagships: less consumer-friendly than showy and promotional. The Bloody Mary Makeover
The luminescence of Nia's distinctive voice remains undiminished and her own compositions are unshowy yet lovely.
Where Benji is brooding and shy, Doug is expansive, showy, a Disneyland-obsessed Nathan Lane type, short and paunchy, but with flaming red hair and a bushy beard. Boing Boing: August 31, 2003 - September 6, 2003 Archives
No plant dares depend upon its cleistogamous or blind flowers alone for offspring; and in the sixty or more genera containing these curious growths, that usually look like buds arrested in development, every plant that bears them bears also showy flowers dependent upon cross-pollination by insect aid. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
And so one might wonder: If Jesus disdained showy prayer, how would he feel about showily praying politicians?
Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces.
Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way.
Other floral delights along the trail include spotted coralroot orchids, twisted stalk, fireweed, and showy asters.
Colorful, showy display; pageantry or pomp.
But the winter container's secret weapon, planted in layers under showy pansies or polyanthus, is the spring-flowering bulb.
The most beautiful is the showy lady's-slipper (_Cypripedium spectabile_), whose large, pink and white flowers rival in beauty many of the choicest tropical orchids. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
If you are wary of using glitter, a wash shimmer will give you the same effect without looking too showy. Times, Sunday Times
In autumn, amaryllid bulbs of Brunsvigia and Haemanthus produce brilliant blooms, while in spring the space between the showy perennial shrubs is ablaze with flowering ephemerals. Succulent Karoo
His early work, especially the cause célèbre "The Elementary Particles," is really less a novel than a treatise on biological determinism, full of ex cathedra pronouncements about the bestiality of human nature and showy pornography meant to illustrate man's mindless, insect-like urge to copulate. Reflections on Self-Regard
And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips.
Female catkins are less showy. Winter Garden Glory
There they stand, head and shoulders above all others, some aggressive and pushy, others large and showy.
A variety popular because of its distinctive salmon pink colour is Marcus Graham, which features large, showy double flowers.
It can be a bit sneery about showy religiosity but is generally tolerant of almost everything except institutional unfairness. Times, Sunday Times
The lord mayor was in an enormous large gilt coach, which was followed by an astonishing number of most showy carriages, in which the rest of the city magistrates, more properly called aldermen of London, were seated. Travels in England in 1782
The bignonia family (_Bignoniaceæ_) is mainly tropical, but in our southern states is represented by the showy trumpet-creeper (_Tecoma_) (Fig. 121, _A_), the catalpa, and _Martynia_. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Rachel - who plays the role of Irene Adler alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's new movie 'Sherlock Holmes' - also said she wasn't into the showy side of the celebrity lifestyle and is making an effort to be more eco-conscious. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
On the hill-tops, among rocks gigantic of mould and fantastic of shape, a less known orchid with inconspicuous flowers yields a perfume reminiscent of the violet; the shady places on the flats are showy with giant crinum lilies. My Tropic Isle
So the Coens and I started talking about Tommy Lee and other people that are fun to listen to, like Bill Clinton, and thought about what it would be like if a person had that kind of showy presentation — but was devoid of substance. Damon's Ride to the Coens' Best Western
A tree (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, having small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.
Its blossoms, on bare branches, are showy and often fragrant.
Instead of being stuck with showy herbs and bombed with sweet sauces, his pork is marinated in olive oil, then plated in neatly grilled slices on a mound of savoy cabbage speckled with fennel seeds.
The flowers of guelder rose, which has tulip-shaped leaves, are particularly showy. Times, Sunday Times
Pekin dinner service, silver cutlery, crystal glasses, showy white napkins, all in order.
She is a most improbable superstar, this small, talkative, unshowy, and resoundingly English mother of two.
There was no body-con here; nothing flash or showy. Times, Sunday Times
Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies.
Inside Man is a rare pleasure; a heist movie that relies on its wits rather than showy pyrotechnics. Times, Sunday Times
It is music of absolute integrity, always sensitive to the tiniest musical gesture, and never showy or pandering to fashion.
Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis. Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection
Every one of these materials and creatures bears the mark of anthropogenic selection, from cotton bred for large bolls to flowers selected for their showy display.
The dinghies on our lake were serviceable, not showy: hand-me-downs with dented motors and countless coats of varnish.
Just the same, her role is the showy one - a crippled up, palsied, intimidating patient in a care home for the elderly.
The showy part of the flower is not the corolla but the modified calyx.
any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds.
Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous.
The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed.
His fresh blend of Japanese and Western influences is exemplified by his showy woodcut renditions of passages from Walt Whitman's ‘Leaves of Grass’.
But the performances from the two leads are fine and unshowy. Times, Sunday Times
They have the biggest collection of showy rings, bracelets and necklaces. The Sun
His cooking is unshowy, unfashionable, unchanging.
Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous.
Once he began to waltz with Katie, these clothes seemed fussy, embarrassingly showy.
Jimmy Carter was not a flashy or showy President, but history judges him as one of America's greatest.
It's excruciatingly wicked and funny, delivered with unshowy wit. Times, Sunday Times
No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
Talich was not a showy musician, and perhaps his greatest strength, apart from his natural talent as a conductor, was his dedication to presenting idiomatic performances of music with which he had a personal relationship.
Page 446 used to call my showy butler, died an object of disgust and horror, whilst old Jacob, with whose red nightcap you comically threatened the gay dandy -- lived till the other day, and dying, left 800 pounds behind him! The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
This thought comes to me the way a boogie board tied to your wrist does in the wake of a showy speedboat: with a smash to the kepi. Vivian Rising

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