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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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The handset's design was more conservative, offered less thermal management hardware than previous handsets, and the garish bright colors and cyber-glow had been moved out of the phone and into a clip-on gaming peripheral.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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Instead it’s been turned into a pantomime with outlandishly garish costumes.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2024
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Even more impressive, on top of his gaudy offensive stats, Eichel is also taking far more defensive-zone starts than most star forwards around the NHL, and is also Vegas’ top penalty-killing forward.—
Jesse Granger,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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The film begins as Jesús (David Pareja), against the wishes of his wife, María (Estefanía de los Santos), buys a gaudy coffee table.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Most polishes leave behind a tacky residue that builds up over time and attracts dust.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2025
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Primetime fundraisers can be tacky, or at least not the best TV.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But melodramatic fantasies about the end can also serve as a kind of lurid distraction from some of the more persistent problems at hand.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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For the past year or longer, unhappy homeowners have paraded a steady drumbeat of complaints and lurid anecdotes at City Council meetings.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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The new Trump administration, eager for a showy start, has been preparing to conduct raids against migrants in Chicago as soon as Tuesday, until the details leaked.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
20 Jan. 2025
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Rainy springtime walk in Central Park This is a showy couple with a penchant for theatrics.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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
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Particularly, with the juxtaposition of the tragedy of the fires makes the kind of vain posturing look more tasteless.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
10 Jan. 2025
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But more is at play in The Substance, which is also tasteless, silly, and — even at its grossest — easy to digest.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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