flashness

The fashion designers that I know, who are successful, are total workaholics … Being around them pushes me to get more 'flashness' done faster!

galadarling.com 2008

I think that no youth has been taught that in falseness and flashness is to be found the road to manliness; but some may perhaps have learned from me that it is to be found in truth and a high but gentle spirit.

An Autobiography 2004

Tom reproved such flashness — he invariably selects the gayest shirts himself — by burning the hat and all the newly-acquired finery.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

They were at the time put down to such things as politeness, rudeness, meanness, flashness, tiredness, emotionality, or the lateness of the hour, and completely forgotten about on the following morning.

Life, the Universe, and Everything Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1982

Poss and Binjie were each riding a station horse to "take the flashness out of him," and Binjie's horse tried to buck him off, but might as well have tried to shed his own skin; so he bolted instead, and disappeared with a snort and a rattle of hoofs over the hill.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

Tom reproved such flashness -- he invariably selects the gayest shirts himself -- by burning the hat and all the newly-acquired finery.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

Her taste sometimes runs riot: it is exuberant, and becomes vulgar and flash; but even then the vulgarity and flashness are of a superior type to those of her equals across the ocean.

Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

I think that no youth has been taught that in falseness and flashness is to be found the road to manliness; but some may perhaps have learned from me that it is to be found in truth and a high but gentle spirit.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883

He'd have put off thinking about it until about an hour before, and then would have made all his arrangements and done the whole business quietly and respectably, without humbug, but without any flashness either.

Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

'It's come just as I said, and knowed it would, through Starlight's cussed flashness and carryin's on in fine company.

Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870