tinsel
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1. tinsel - Noun
2. tinsel - Adjective
3. tinsel - Verb
Meaning
A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel.
Your winning is no my tinsel.