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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
Adjective
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While a Daiquiri is snappy, the Daisy de Santiago is garish.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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Here, as elsewhere, the president is taking an existing elite failing to its garish extreme.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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At the time, unnatural hair color was considered gaudy, a threat to the beloved ingenue aesthetic boasted by female stars such as Audrey Hepburn.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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But Oklahoma City engulfs basketball’s gaudiest attacks not in spite of its hacking but because of it.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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The show was shamelessly tacky, which was perhaps some of the appeal as well, which has only gotten more pronounced with her subsequent efforts.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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Its speed, curves, and pizzazz, without being tacky, were so different from anything else on the water that the first hull was sold outside Italy, reportedly to a former New York governor who kept the Italian stallion incognito, outside the view of tax-payers.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Ivor checked the verges to the limit of the headlights, his mind gone lurid and blank.—
Anne Enright,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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There is no overlooking the lurid spectacle that Spain’s World Cup triumph eventually descended into.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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Zinnias also attract butterflies with its showy flowers.—
Clarence Schmidt,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 July 2025
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Netflix shows can do the same thing even with a binge model — but Pulse simply isn’t the same kind of big, showy event series as a Wednesday or Squid Game or even Department Q.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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After everything else the bawdy, tawdry, and perfectly ludicrous The Hunting Wives serves up in its first season, the series’s final act is an embarrassment of riches.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 July 2025
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Then there’s the cup holder cover, a small detail, which is tawdry and lets the expensive-feeling cabin down a bit.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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So ranked-choice voting was implemented as a stop-loss remedy — a move to camouflage the practices of an industry devoted to meretricious, often nihilistic entertainments.—
Armond White,
National Review,
27 June 2025
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These meretricious narratives play well throughout the Global South.—
Michael Miklaucic,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Their betrayal of their own family was tasteless and tacky.—
Brie Stimson , Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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The mere thought of enduring a week or more of watery, tasteless, or bitter coffee can be daunting.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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