tinsel
- brummagem adj.
- clinquant adj.
- flashy adj.
- garish adj.
- gaudy adj.
- gilt adj.
- glittering adj.
- meretricious adj.
- ostentatious adj.
- showy adj.
- splurgy adj.
- tawdry adj.
- bangle n.
- decoration n.
- garnish n.
- glister n.
- glitter n.
- resplendence n.
- resplendency n.
- scintillation n.
- sequin n.
- sumptuousness n.
- gild v.
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“Let’s pack our bags, grab some tinsel and emotionally prepare for a hearty serving of family dysfunction,” the streamer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026
“For that, we added lots of swallow-tailed ribbons for an extra pop of color … underneath all the tinsel which is Zooey’s absolute favorite!” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
A Christmas tree was dusted off, tinsel and baubles were unpacked, and the hotel was decked out with decorations.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
While this month is mid-summer for half the world, Australia is in the depths of winter and for many, that means it's time for tinsel, turkey and Yuletide tunes.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
Mrs. Glass narrowed her eyes at it and picked at the tinsel with her fingers.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Wynette, by then a country music legend with a tinseled string of No. 1 songs, was, as she expressed it in an open letter, as angry as she could be.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
As artists and writers know all too well, there’s no place like home for the holidays, with tensions simmering beneath the tinseled surface of foil-wrapped presents and forced cheer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Please understand, I’m not a wraith in sackcloth among the tinseled brides of fortune.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2019
Those who reject it — Scrooge, the Grinch — must be forced into its tinseled embrace.
From Time ● Dec. 24, 2011
Within an hour or two, the holiday would come bounding down the stairs and squealing ’round the tinseled trees of Two Mills.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Christmas only really starts when her tinselled tonsils appear on the radio.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2021
Inside, the tinselled high school is overstuffed with actors from the show—all beautifully graduated from puberty—breathing in the vapors of nostalgia.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2018
I say altar; it was actually a tinselled corner of R&R's.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013
Soldiers in red breeches, peasants in embroidered jackets, strolling mountebanks all tinselled and rouged—they were all one to me....
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The crude blue of her dress, the tags and ends of tinselled braid set his teeth on edge.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
Seats were provided for these workers except for those at tinselling; and if they found they were able to complete the task easily, they sat at the work.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark
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