Usually means: Showy and cheap in appearance.
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  1. tinselly: Merriam-Webster
  2. tinselly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tinselly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tinselly: Vocabulary.com
  5. tinselly: Wordnik
  6. tinselly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tinselly: Wiktionary
  8. tinselly: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tinselly: Dictionary.com
  10. Tinselly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. tinselly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. tinselly: Rhymezone
  13. Tinselly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tinselly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tinselly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Tinselly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tinselly)

▸ adjective:  Resembling or adorned with tinsel.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Gaudy, superficial; offering attraction without depth.

Similar:
clinquant, adorned, decorated, tinseled, tinsely, tinsellike, tasselly, spangly, tinlike, tinny, more...

Opposite:
plain, simple, understated, unadorned

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Similar:
clinquant, adorned, decorated, tinseled, tinsely, tinsellike, tasselly, spangly, tinlike, tinny, more...

Opposite:
plain, simple, understated, unadorned



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