Tinsel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TINSEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give a showy appearance to
• To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
• impart a cheap brightness to
• interweave with tinsel
• decorate with or as if with tinsel
NOUN:
• a form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil attached to a long piece of thread
• showy or superficial attractiveness or glamour
• decorative metallic strips or threads
• 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.
• Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
• a showy decoration that is basically valueless
• a thread with glittering metal foil attached
ADJECTIVE:
• Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
• made of or decorated with tinsel
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to give a showy or gaudy appearance to

Words related to TINSEL

tinseled9 tinseling10 tinselled10 tinselling11 tinselly11 tinsels7 tinsey9

Words that contain TINSEL

tinsels7 tinsely10 tinseled9 tinselly11 tinselry11 tinseling10 tinselled10 tinselier9 tinselling11 tinselries10 tinseliest10 tinsellier10 tinselliest11

How to use TINSEL in a sentence

• Heatherbloom the tinsel palace had become a temple of felicity and wonder.
• The latter, decorated with the ordinary display of 19th century tinsel, does not call for much comment, but in a passage close behind it stands the mausoleum of St.
• By noon, they were hanging tinsel on the tree, and Jennifer was telling him that she could finally get some really nice decorations.
• The bridegroom is enveloped in a purple mantle, his turban dressed out with gold tinsel, tresses, ribbons, and tassels, so that from a distance it appears like a rich crown.
• There in the silent shadows of the wood, bared of its tinsel and music, the rehearsal took on a different color.
• It was one of these tinsel affairs that had made clear to her just where her future lay.
• Tinsel, indeed! then here was yet more tinsel which she must receive as gold.
• The second is that I came home with all the tinsel and glamour of a popular hero.
• With a great deal of tinsel and splendid patch-work, he has not been able to hide the solid sterling ore of genius.
• To him, romance meant the lights, the crowds, the amusements, the glitter and tinsel of the cities of the East, word of which had come to him through various channels.
• Between each one of them burned a radiant star, not of tinsel, but of real cosmic material.
• And the tinsel of life is burned in the glow That flames in his heart as in years long ago, When Norman sea-kings swept the wave, Who loved the night, the storm, and bloody grave.
• There were all sorts of balls and tinsel wreaths and tiny, glistening cords.
• I will acquaint her with some of the commonplace facts concerning the lives of theatrical people, and show her the frayed tinsel and worn faces by daylight.
• There were scraps of tinsel and odds and ends of ornaments that had been broken or damaged by careless handling.
• A few flakes of snow were falling, like glistening particles of tinsel.
• Every Friday afternoon you may see her presiding over her little court in the Miyazaki mansion, with its mixture of tinsel and dust.
• For a long time he suppressed his natural instinct, and merely grumbled softly once in a while when a horn knocked the brush or the tinsel out of his hand.
• In her hair, which, strange enough, was black, although she lived among a blond people, the gold and silver tinsel glittered gaily.
• I could easily have left in the flourishes and tinsel phrases which excite the enthusiasm of those whose taste is not of a very elevated kind, that is to say, of the majority.
• The world that lay before us then was but a tinsel toy to the world which our firm feet tread.
• It is far more noble-minded to bid farewell to all our greatness, than to catch greedily at any of the outlying tinsel that may remain here and there.
• GRISELDA should wear a similar costume of pale gray and lavender, with a tall headdress of wire covered with white gauze and tinsel.
• The tinsel used is, in each case, for the purpose of cutting down the resistance of the main steel conductor.
• I felt the way I look sometimes at dawn after dancing all night, my tinsel tarnished, my color faded.

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