Splashiness in a sentence as a noun

I'm not begrudging him for it, but he was being fudgy with numbers for the sake of splashiness.

That is, the rigor of academic work seems less and less important than the splashiness of it.

Those are fine looking templates, and I like the idea of using a bit of splashiness to stand out from the crowd.

Splashiness definitions

noun

lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

See also: ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness inflation