Definition of "tinselled" [tinselled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of tinsel. (verb)

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• "Or tinselled crowns, for forms that sensed no haloes"
• "Yes, a lie, turned topsy – turvy, can be prinked and tinselled out, decked in plumage new and fine, till none knows its lean old carcass."
• "I say impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as society cannot readily cure, it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn: this scorn being only a sort of tinselled cloak to its deformed weakness."