as in garish
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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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Their latest is a redo of the Tesla Cybertruck, which is predictably garish, though some might say that the Cybertruck was never all that beautiful to begin with.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
28 Feb. 2025
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With a two-tone black and copper design, the earbuds look stylish without being garish or over the top.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Andy Enfield’s team needs a gaudy record to offset its lack of Q1 triumphs.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Did the Bears even have a defensive team meeting this week? Sure enough, Purdy went 2-for-5 against those man-to-man snaps, albeit for a gaudy 71 yards.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The ball used in the KBO is tackier and the seams are different, the strike zone is much smaller and the ballparks tend to be very hitter friendly.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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In recent years, his chairmanship has fanned the flames of conflict between himself and downtown residents who say Carollo has used his power in the agency like a cudgel to clutter precious greenspace with tacky and unnecessary installations.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The movie’s lurid hues come off as ominous intrusions, disturbances of the regular order.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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However, the lurid thoughts communicated in Johanne’s prose are enough to send Kristin and Karin into a spiral over how Johanne could possibly have come to felt this way.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Men’s fashion week has long been considered the quieter, less showy sibling of the long-standing women’s event.—
Joy Montgomery,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement The fate of the nearby Bruin, which opened in 1937, remains unclear; it was not purchased along with its more showy sibling.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2024
Adjective
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Image Those actions were, apparently, tawdry means to an end.—
Richard Fausset,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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Managers leapt at the chance to democratize theater and shed the tawdrier aspects of its reputation, and pantomime was a great way to do so.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Denzel Washington stars as Macrinus, a meretricious arms dealer who own a stable of gladiators, while Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger are brothers and ruling emperors.—
Zoe Guy,
Vulture,
1 July 2024
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But as a character study, with Holocaust themes deepening the stakes of the domestic turmoil, the play holds up extremely well in its critique of a world that has lost its capacity for silence and that is prepared to sacrifice literature for meretricious distraction.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
16 July 2024
Adjective
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The resulting odorless and tasteless solution is packed into LND101 capsules, The pancreatic cancer patients will take the pills on a specific dosage calendar.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
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The Office’s more tasteless moments remain hysterically funny thanks to the show’s empathy: this was a series that punched up, not down.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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