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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Just 30 minutes later, his key worker Cookson put him down again for a second sleep in the afternoon, placing him inside a small teepee that was decorated in tinsel for Christmas.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“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
“The task was to create the tree, but make it different. So, you still love the tinsel, still love the colorful balls, and you still want lots of light,” Brown said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
Marks & Spencer noted strong sales of its tinsel rosettes and tinsel tree skirts this year, while John Lewis said sales of "retro-nostalgic decor" had soared 180% in 2025.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Ralph sat quietly on the floor and George was trying a little harness on him made out of old Christmas tinsel.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Who can behold the dance of Dawn— Juggling with stars like tinselled balls, Vestured in mantle of a wan, White glory whose dim splendour falls Upon the mountains; and not feel Himself transcendant?
From The Piper and the Reed by Norwood, Robert W.
All these things have I seen, Bogle, yea, and cheered them to the echo, in company with some thousand Cockneys, all agape at the glitter of tinselled pasteboard, and the glories of the Catharine-wheel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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 Clark, Sue Ainslie
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