tinselly

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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. Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinselly
Adjective
  • Kay Lee’s production design is another plus, especially turning Rogen’s garish ultra modern home into a character all itself.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly every garish flight of fancy that decorates the frame is a distraction while the majority of the film does little more than rotely dramatize Kafka’s biography.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That gaudy slash line is almost solely responsible for Alcántara being the September call-up over top outfield prospect Owen Caissie.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In many of these suburbs, the prevalence of tearing down perfectly sound old single-family homes in order to build often-gaudy new structures has led to proposals to incentivize keeping more of the old housing stock, using tax breaks and other means.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Spoon into prepared baking pan, and spread in an even layer (dough will be stiff and tacky).
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • People were calling it tacky, brave, MFA garbage, heart wrenching.
    Sarah Adler September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The film stages its riot of activity as hard-nosed honesty, but its portrait is ultimately as ginned-up and inexact as the fictional news broadcast’s lurid prying.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His lurid saga — set in the tropics, the plot revolving around deceit and a dead body — would be just the sort of onscreen story PMI specialized in financing.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Heading to the glitzy Canadian city for the Toronto International Film Festival?
    Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But rather than overwhelm the property, these additions have enlivened it, drawing a broader crowd to its idyllic grounds and helping a younger generation connect with the island’s slower rhythms, far from its glitzy beach clubs.
    Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the ultra-low budgets of the Terrifier movies helped emphasize the fakeness of it all, and Universal has embraced that kitschy esthetic in its haunted houses.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Attractions include kitschy traditions such as a butter-sculpting demonstration, in which a master carver crafts a bust of the winner of the annual Princess Kay of the Milky Way pageant, and the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These mums lack stolons and have large, showy blooms and little foliage.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But the showy structure overwhelms the unshowy story.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For once in your tawdry, obese life, do the right thing.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the settings are extremely well chosen and designed, particularly the tawdry Taco Hut law offices (in contrast to the chic modernity of the Tinsley Britt workplace) and a dingy seaside diner where people keep having meetings.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Tinselly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinselly. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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