Crossword-Solution: TINSELLY 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The place was so tinselly and common that, coming to it from weeks of rough travelling, it made me impatient.

Then came before her an elephant, with ornamental housing and howdah, and a train of cars, meant to be very fine, but way-worn and battered, with white and piebald steeds, and gaudy tinselly drivers, and dames in scarlet and blue, much needing a washing, distributing coloured sheets about the grand performance to take place that night at eight o’clock, of the Sepoy’s Death Song and the Bleeding Bride.

There is a tinselly halo about the writer of books that affects many minds the most _practical_, so called; they take it to indicate power, which, with most, means ability in the direction of one's own way, or his party's, and so his own in the end.

The roof which bends over this scene of death is splendidly adorned with carving and gilding, while the varied colours and tinctures both above and beneath, free from the tinselly effect which might have been apprehended, [acquire a] solemnity in the dim religious light, which they probably owe to the lapse of time.

Whether the knowledge that the work was to be executed in strong threads has hampered the designer or not cannot be said, but certainly there is often a tinselly effect about these bindings that is not altogether pleasing.