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GARISHLY
Definition of GARISHLY
adverb
In a garish manner.
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Other senses
GARISHLY carries 2 further meanings.
In a garish, showy, or dazzling manner; gaudily; flightily; unsteadily.
adverb
in a tastelessly garish manner
Where it comes from
From garish + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
GARISHLY in a sentence
“Still images of young Thai men in garishly logoed contemporary western apparel, capturing then posing humorously with a P.O.W. of sorts eerily remind one of war photos, transposing the nature of the warfare and the roles of and weapons used by its participants, perhaps suggesting that in the transition from a mutual death grip in a fight over the spread of communism to a desperate co-dependency based on manufacturing and consumption, only the uniforms and the ideologies have changed.”
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARISHLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 64 boards so far. 284 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GARISHLY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHILRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GARISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found GARISHLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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