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Word: tinsel
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
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Noun:
- Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
- 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.
- Very thin strips of a glittering, metallic material used as a decoration, and traditionally, draped at Christmas time over streamers, paper chains and the branches of Christmas trees.
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Verb:
- metaphorical|transitive To give something a false sparkle.
- transitive To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
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