|
|
Definition of Tinselly
1. Adjective. Glittering with gold or silver.
Definition of Tinselly
1. a. Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
2. adv. In a showy and cheap manner.
Definition of Tinselly
1. Adjective. Resembling or adorned with tinsel. ¹
2. Adjective. Gaudy, superficial; offering attraction without depth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinselly
1. cheaply gaudy [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinselly
Literary usage of Tinselly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Sometimes affected, sometimes fade, sometimes pedantic, and sometimes tinselly,
none of her works were ever simple, graceful, or natural ; and I never heard ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... has no record of men thrown over, no scapegoats sent into the wilderness.
In Disraeli's novels, full as they are of wit, there is something tinselly, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1839)
"... publication affords us, to the tawdry and tinselly transmutations into which
the florid school of singing has, in the course of time, converted them. ..."
4. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"... in spite of all the sparkling and tinselly cleverness and all the premature
experience and the ennui resulting therefrom ; nature even in dissimulation, ..."
5. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"... the most truly poetical of his poems, many admirable specimens of his wit,
and far less than almost any other of his works of his tinselly rhodomontade. ..."
Other Resources:
