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Recent Examples of tinselly
The precocious designer became a supernova thanks to continuous toil in a tinselly milieu that prizes leisure and luxury.
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Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinselly
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Not because of the roving packs of teenagers or even the garish displays of overconsumption, but because mall architecture was high art.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Out front was a parked Jeep that had been decorated in garish camouflage and emblazoned with the grinning face of a man who went by Lawyer Don.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Both these cousins grow to a comparable size and shape about 15 to 20 feet tall and wide, and combine gaudy spring flowers with scarlet and crimson fall foliage.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2026
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The neighbors of the Highland Park mansion once owned by MJ now have flexed their muscle not once but twice at proposals to repurpose the gaudy property for something other than a one-family occupier living therein.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The bronzed skin is tacky with the bird’s own fat and sugars, and beautifully caramelized along every ridge.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Sports franchises everywhere can be tacky, rapacious, incompetent, extortionate, and otherwise exploitative, but only because their customers, the fans, are essentially captives.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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The actors sprang to life, staging a lurid scene in which an evil mistress named Selina frames the heroine for killing her unborn child.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Cascio’s lawsuit paints a lurid picture of Jackson giving the siblings drugs and alcohol and exposing them to child pornography, all to help facilitate the abuse and manipulation.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The glitzy event, held annually, brings together some of the most powerful people in Washington, and the journalists who cover them.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Released in 2022, the Historiques 222 is a glitzy, modern take on one of the Swiss watchmaker’s retro classics.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
25 Apr. 2026
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The auction features more than 500 lots of designer clothing, shoes, furnishings, kitschy keepsakes and props straight from the beloved show.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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And Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022) dropped its kitschy, hip-swiveling subject into a delirious fever dream that at the very least made its messy screenplay interesting.—
Keith Murphy,
VIBE.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Hibiscus is another tropical favorite, with large, showy blooms that flourish in warm temperatures.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
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Hibiscus is another tropical favorite, with large, showy blooms that flourish in warm temperatures.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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For those who know the play well, some of Mantello’s choices are most striking, especially the horror here of the famous hotel-room scene with a tawdry lover (brutally played by Katherine Romans), an act born of loneliness that destroys a father’s relationship with his son forever.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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