Flashy vs Tinsel - What's the difference?
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Flashy is a related term of tinsel. As adjectives the difference between flashy and tinsel is that flashy is showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing while tinsel is glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy. As a noun tinsel is 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. As a verb tinsel is to adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
flashy English
Adjective
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Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
- The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
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tinsel English
Noun
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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.
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- Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=( The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword citation
, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}
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.
Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
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- O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel , hers the rich reward.
Adjective
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Glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
- Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her steed with tinsell trappings shone [...].
Verb
To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
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- She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues.
(figuratively) To give a false sparkle to (something).
Derived terms
* tinseled, tinselled
* tinselly
* Tinseltown
See also
* trimmings
* trim up
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