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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
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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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Chuy's is also known for its maximalist and gaudy interior design and atmosphere.Beck Andrew Salgado, Austin American-Statesman, 18 July 2024
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They were hidden from Eliza by a palm made gaudy with orchids.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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This is especially true of corn brooms, which can be slightly tacky, causing shards to stick to the rushes.Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2024
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Its easy slip-on design is paired with a tacky Vibram outsole offering traction that reminded us of Topo’s award-winning trail shoes.Cory Smith, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
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The street was lurid with the flashing lights of several fire trucks.Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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The regulation was written in the late 1990s after the high-profile release of a lurid report by Kenneth Starr, an independent counsel who investigated Mr. Clinton over the Whitewater land deal and his affair with Monica Lewinsky.Alan Feuer, New York Times, 7 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
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The operatic numbers are showy and gorgeous, with great costumes and production design.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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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
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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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