as in glitter
something attractive but lacking in substance
a book that examines popular fame and finds it to be very disposable tinsel
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Recent Examples of tinsel
The Paul Mitchell Hair & Beauty School will be on hand to give fans the pop star treatment with hair tinsel, accent braiding and color pops.
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
Customers are asked to cut the tree into 5-foot pieces and remove all tinsel, decorations and tree stand before putting the tree out.
—Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
And make sure to remove all tinsel, decorations, plastic bags, stands and lights.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 1 Jan. 2025
Prevent ingesting ornaments and tinsel Ornaments and tinsel can be hazardous.
—Sara Hansen, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2024
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
Customers are asked to cut the tree into 5-foot pieces and remove all tinsel, decorations and tree stand before putting the tree out.
—Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
And make sure to remove all tinsel, decorations, plastic bags, stands and lights.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 1 Jan. 2025
Prevent ingesting ornaments and tinsel Ornaments and tinsel can be hazardous.
—Sara Hansen, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinsel
Noun
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The themes are heavy on Western and Americana, but the Renaissance glitter, dance, and futurism is apparent.—
Yolanda Machado,
EW.com,
1 May 2025
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Built in 2017, the exterior of the house has a futuristic sort of appeal and glitters in the green hills of Beverly Hills, California.—
TJ Macias,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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What might look like sparkling wisps of candy floss, or cotton candy, are dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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Apparently the director doesn’t mind the cotton candy smoke wafting up from a supposedly dead body.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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“Tinsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinsel. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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