tinseled meaning

Adjective: tinseled
Usage: US (=tinselled)

1. Glittering with gold or silver
   - clinquant, tinselly, tinselled

Verb: tinsel (tinselled,tinselling, or [US] tinseled,tinseling)  tinsul

1. Impart a cheap brightness to
   "his tinseled image of Hollywood" 
2. Adorn with tinsel
   "snow flakes tinseled the trees" 
3. Interweave with tinsel
   "tinseled velvet"

See also: adorned, decorated

Type of: add, adorn, beautify, bestow, bring, contribute, decorate, embellish, grace, impart, interweave, lend, ornament, weave

Encyclopedia: Tinsel

[American slang]
mod. forged or “decorated,” as with a bad check. (Underworld.)
• Gert got caught passing tinseled checks.
• He almost got caught kiting tinseled checks.

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1. Lighted, tinseled and glorious, it thrilled the local citizenry.
2. Briefcases brimming with psychobaubles, consultants leapt into the tinseled breach.
3. Increasingly, the days before Christmas are a shrieking tinseled blur.
4. We dodged through glades of hemlocks tinseled with moss.
5. Is your tree standing tall and tinseled?