What's the difference between clinquant and tinselly?
Clinquant
Definition:
(a.) Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
(n.) Tinsel; Dutch gold.
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Tinselly
Definition:
(a.) Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
(adv.) In a showy and cheap manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
(2) Of course, even thinking in these crude competitive "scoresheet" terms is a very un-Serious thing to be doing, and the admirers of 12 Years a Slave may have a sinking feeling that it will not be properly rewarded in the tinselly, meretricious, un-Serious Oscar world.