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Tinselly

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Tin´sel`ly
a.1.Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
adv.1.In a showy and cheap manner.
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Adj.1.tinselly - glittering with gold or silver
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction


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One worthwhile preparation is the acquisition from the UK of packs of Christmas cards, you know the type, 20 tinselly scenes or 40 comic cartoons for a quid.
In fact these pieces, with their recuperation of the unvalued, their play of stiff and soft, rigid and limp, stuffed and empty, and their tinselly, glittery loveliness, virtually call out for it.
In choppy, gray seas four miles from shore near India's tropical southern tip, Rajan spotted the tinselly sparkle of a school of sardines.
 
 
 
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