Crossword-Solution: TINSEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tinsel | n. | 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. |
| Tinsel | n. | Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable. |
| Tinsel | a. | Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial. |
| Tinsel | v. t. | To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TINSEL | anagram | ENLIST, ESTLIN, INLETS, LETINS, LETSIN, LISTEN, SILENT, SLIENT, TESLIN |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TINSEL (5)
Merciful heaven! who would exchange the rapture of such a reflexion for all the gaudy tinsel which the world calls pleasure! But to return.--Content dwelt in Mrs.
There is a kind of swell medieval bulliness and tinsel about it that pleases his gaudy barbaric soul.
And, first, it should be said that Browning has so much material, such a large thought and passion capital, that we never find him making a little go a great way, by means of EXPRESSION, or rather concealing the little by means of rhetorical tinsel.
You organise a sham of tinsel and pasteboard, put on fool's cap and bells, beat a gong at a street corner, and the crowd cheers you and drops nickels into your hat.
Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never seen such things before--fluttered among the leaves, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.
Quotes with TINSEL (3)
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to…
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machi…
We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the unreal twilight, fitfully like the echo of voices laughing down some alley, geniality returned to me and flesh. Against the gateway, against some cedar tree I saw blaze bright, Neville, Jinny, Rhoda, Louis, Susan and myself, our life, our identity. Still King William seemed an unreal monarch and his crown mere tinsel. But we — against the brick, against the branches…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 124 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).