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- adjective informal Of or pertaining to
showbiz ;glitzy ,glamorous (possibly implying a lack of intellectual depth).
Etymologies
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Examples
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We thought it would be great for Neil - dressed in a ridiculous 'showbizzy' suit - to start out accompanied just by a pianist, like he was doing a lounge act.
Mike Ragogna: And Now For Something Completely Different: The Secret Policeman's Film Festival 2009
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"fit," or is the experience more loose and "showbizzy" - pure fun?
Playbill.com : News 2010
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'showbizzy' to British festival-goers but if it gives the music mass appeal without detracting from the quality why not? closed the first night with a set that ranged from free jazz to Afro-pop, 'Soul Makossa' sounded far younger than thirty five years old with the bass riff returning again and again to push the dancers in the wide pit at the front of the seating into energetic celebration.
World Music Central 2009
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The unofficial speculation has always been that Nudd wasn't quite the "look" the increasingly showbizzy ceremony was going for.
Women should be happy they have failed the Sports Personality test | Marina Hyde 2011
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Brooklyn-ier than the showbizzy celebration they got on the West Coast.
A Brooklyn Bash for Kim and Kris? Jason Gay 2011
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MR: It was sort of like the showbizzy '80s mercifully had fallen victim to indie radio.
Mike Ragogna: Hey, Jon Stewart...What About Buffalo Tom? A Conversation with Bill Janovitz Mike Ragogna 2011
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MR: It was sort of like the showbizzy '80s mercifully had fallen victim to indie radio.
Mike Ragogna: Hey, Jon Stewart...What About Buffalo Tom? A Conversation with Bill Janovitz Mike Ragogna 2011
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Unluckily for Treslove, his two oldest friends? the showbizzy expatriate Czech octogenarian Libor and the self-regarding pop philosopher Finkler? have recently been widowed.
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It was showbizzy and gushing at times, but Norton's acute observations were lovely too.
Breakfast Show 2010
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Instead, it seems to be the very nature of showbizzy modern architecture that it entails costly fixes, during construction and after.
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