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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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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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The show’s graphic designer Tansy Michaud designed the cover, which, with its garish red-and-yellow cover and text about self-actualization, was meant to be a little graphically obnoxious.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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After a season of gaudy stats, but a few high-leverage failures (4 runs vs. Yankees; failure to appear against his old squad, the Phils).—
Eno Sarris,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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The paintings of Mickalene Thomas are big, bold, gaudy, and beautiful, embedded with rhinestones, daubed with phosphorescent color, and composed like crazy quilts.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This production replaces the Orientalist extravaganza that Sonya Frisell directed in 1988 and that came to define the grand-opera experience — dazzling, uplifting, gloriously tacky — for two generations.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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Prada card wallet Some designer logos and labels are loud and often seem tacky as opposed to luxurious.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
Fox News,
7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The film instead evolves into a lurid knockoff of an early Coen-brothers work, something like Blood Simple with tablets.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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The news feeds occasionally cut to the boisterous arena, lit in lurid blood-red, as if showing MAGA’s id and superego in split screen.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The film will also likely need Baker to surpass some showy directorial achievements for Neon to claim its second-ever best picture winner.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
30 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
Adjective
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Most commercially available types are predominately made of soybean oil, making the flavor mild and nearly tasteless.—
Allison Herries,
Verywell Health,
4 Feb. 2025
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The first film had charm and heart, while Daddy’s Home 2 is mostly a tacky, tasteless affair.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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