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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“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
"We bring in a few mince pieces, the site offices might have a bit of tinsel around," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
But this year, her living room is an explosion of colour, bedecked with foil stars, tinsel and homemade paper chains and ribbon garlands.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Griffiths doesn’t fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
He remembers decorating it clumsily with garlands and tinsel and a string of lights that made his father nervous.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
And while my beard has tinseled, the intervening years haven’t exactly been kind to Rome either.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
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
Lowering his head, the fiery brute dashed with a bellow at that tinselled figure.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The little tinselled figure, looking taller in its swashbuckling habits, stared at him defiantly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
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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