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Visually loud, or a polite warning that someone's stories are best fact-checked.
means Full of bright varied colors, or vivid and interesting in a lively, sometimes scandalous way.
from From Old French color and Latin color (hue, tint), plus the homemade English suffix -ful meaning full of — literally full of color, later borrowed by gossip.
Double lifeDescribes both sunsets and shady business pasts.
Polite codeA colorful character usually means borderline criminal.
Spelling splitAmericans drop the u Brits keep in colourful.