Tinselly

//ˈtɪnsəli// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or adorned with tinsel.

    "Christmas decorations clung to the light poles lining the street — green, red, and white tinselly creations: snowmen, Santas, reindeer, candy canes..."

  2. 2
    Gaudy, superficial; offering attraction without depth. figuratively

    "She was a light-skinned girl of frail and tinselly beauty […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    glittering with gold or silver wordnet

Synonyms

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blatantblinkingblinkybrashclinquantclinquant

Example

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"For as the young people went by with their despatch-boxes, awfully glad to be free, proud too, dumbly, of stepping this famous pavement, joy of a kind, cheap, tinselly, if you like, but all the same rapture, flushed their faces."

Etymology

From tinsel + -y.

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