Thesaurus results for CANDYFLOSS

candyfloss

noun

British

as in tinsel

something attractive but lacking in substance the composer's works have generally been dismissed as candyfloss by music critics

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Or a strip of tinsel had been granted a wish to be human for the day.

Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024

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