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tinsel

a yarn or fabric interwoven with strands of glittering thread

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It's so cheesily, tinselly, toothachingly Christmassy in places, it makes you think this must be what if feels like to have a slushie thrown in your face.

Record tv; PICK OF THE DAY

[Chalabi/Tinkerbell waves wand in a tinselly flash.]

Idle smashing: an evening with Christopher Hitchens

But get him started about favourite childhood Christmases, festive films and all things tinselly, and he becomes positively treacly.

Double trouble at Christmas

There!" In choppy, gray seas four miles from shore near India's tropical southern tip, Rajan spotted the tinselly sparkle of a school of sardines.

Cellphones dial up a sea change for fishing-boat skippers

It's not upbeat enough to be a good Christmas Number One, there are no tinselly bell sounds4.

Who will be number one number; As the race for the all-important Christmas number hots up, Laura Davis takes a look at the contenders for the festive top spot

Even plain brown paper can seem subtle yet stylish, particularly when teamed with thick ribbon, or string for some old fashioned charm When it comes to decoration think beyond the usual tinselly ties and bows that you buy from cards shops and instead try a department store haberdashery department for ribbons, beading, braiding and trimming to use instead.

BAD PRESENTATION AVOID THE WRAP; ALISON JONES LOOKS AT A BOOK THAT COULD SAVE A FEW BLUSHES ON CHRISTMAS DAY

The most important is an obsession with appearance, not as a tinselly camping around, but as an ironic, yet intense, poetry.

Richard Dyer with Julianne Pudduck. Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film, Second Edition

Down below, on Wickenden Street, I can see the young in one another's arms, flowing hair and flowing garments, the summer sounds of Fox Point rising tinselly and joyful as a thousand banjos.

My romance

We no longer care if they are doing a good job just as long as they keep us entertained with romances, scandals, gaffes and tinselly flashes of showbiz glamour.

RICHARD WILLIAMSON'S COLUMN: Kings of the soap operas; The princes face a gossip-hungry public that expects them to behave like pop stars

She was wearing a tinselly tulle outfit that bared her shoulders.

Pink paradoxes on Nevsky prospect: representing Russia's social divides: Barbie embodies a world many dream of, but few see

In the rinsed color of my video scope, I study the tinselly lines of sweat coming from his brow, the flush of anguish in his skin.

Teen sniper. (Story)

It encourages and then panders to the worst kind of bullying sentimentalism, of the kind witnessed after the death of Princess Diana, a woman whose combination of tinselly glamour, mental vacuity, and emotional incontinence so perfectly reflected the temper of our times.