Word Meanings - TINSELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

CHEAPLY
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
CHEAP-JACK; CHEAP-JOHN
A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
CHEAPNESS
Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
GAUDYGREEN
Light green. Chaucer. Spenser.
CHEAP
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. (more info) purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer,
GAUDY
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak. 2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
CHEAPENER
One who cheapens.
TINSEL
1. 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. Who can discern
CHEAPEN
To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. (more info) to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupon to trade. 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer
TINSELLY
Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
SHOWY
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