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Like a Christmas tree
Answer for the clue "Like a Christmas tree ", 8 letters:
tinselly
Alternative clues for the word tinselly
Word definitions for tinselly in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. glittering with gold or silver [syn: clinquant , tinseled ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinselly \Tin"sel*ly\, a. Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling or adorned with tinsel. 2 gaudy, superficial; offering attraction without depth.
Usage examples of tinselly.
It was a tinselly kind of name with a little bit of originality, rare among the breed, and you tended to remember it.
I also saw that he was furious at the way Mildred lookedpoor Mildred, our missing Christmas tree in her tinselly beaded dress.
The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form.
She had also bought the last of the Christmas sparklers which were like low-key fireworks giving off little tinselly sparks.
Her eyelids are reddened by the friction of tears and tiny flakes of light shine in her green irises like the microscopic facets that give metallic paint its tinselly quality.
And a far cry from either the tinselly fortune-teller with her rhinestone glasses, or the antique bird woman at the United Nations, swathed in black.
The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form.