Definition of "garish"
garish
/ˈɡɛəɹɪʃ/
adjective
comparative more garish, superlative most garish
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
Quotations
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company