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• v  impart a cheap brightness to
  his tinseled image of Hollywood
• v  adorn with tinsel
  snow flakes tinseled the trees
• v  interweave with tinsel
  tinseled velvet
• s  glittering with gold or silver

• Those who reject it--Scrooge, the Grinch--must be forced into its tinseled embrace.
• In the tinseled, brutal world of prancing ponies and pickpockets, Gus acquires money and mistresses.
• The show is very New Yorky in mood, with an opening backdrop of the Manhattan skyline that is like a bas-relief of tinseled Christmas trees.

• tinsel
• clinquant
• tinselly

News & Articles

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• Misunderstood
  Fourth down, 10 seconds remaining, down a score. Cheerleaders try shaking luck and life out of their tinseled pom-poms. Coaches' veins bulge the more saliva is spewed from beneath their headsets.
  Oct. 4, 2013 - The Spectrum