glitz
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- noun
- /ɡlɪts/
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ostentación
- You're here, you see the glitz, the glamour, and you start to learn that it's it's a tough town.
- glitz and glamour
You just see the lights, the glamour, the glitz, and you fall in love with that.
- You just see the lights, the glamour, the glitz, and you fall in love with that.
- People want the glitz and the glamour and the caviar, but they're not willing to eat this.
- I just kept going on and and because of that, I wasn't kind of bamboozled by kind of the glitz and the glam.
- Because I think people get caught up in the glamour and the glitz and the face value of something, but they don't understand the inner science and the inner mechanism of it.
- Alcohol field sparkles, glitz and glamour.
- This is the glitz and makeup gift set thing.
Examples
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You know, they spend a lot of time on the glitz and maybe less time on really good content.
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Despite the glitz of the decorations, the event felt lacking in genuine warmth.
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Go natural, with a bit of glitz, on the holiday tree.
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I see right through the glitz.
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As a little girl, you just see the lights, the glamour, the glitz, and you fall in love with that.
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In a town filled with glamour and glitz, love too often takes a back seat.
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On one hand, it is the "Entertainment Capital of the World," a place of gambling, glitz, and glamour.
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Advertisements try to persuade with glitz and whatever garners immediate attention.
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As the film industry shifts back to escapism, glitz and glamour is all the rage.
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Remembering a unique era in air travel, when it was all glitz, glamour, and questionable practices.
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Synonyms
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3.7
An attractive, exciting quality that makes something seem special and desirable
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A very bright and fancy style that attracts attention in dress or manner
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A bright, showy style that attracts attention and looks cheap
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A cheap, flashy look that seems low quality
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A show of expensive things to seem important
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Too much bright decoration on clothes or signs that looks bad
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A quality of looking cheap and in bad taste
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Things that are very bright or flashy and look unpleasant
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6.5
A style that is very bright or richly decorated to attract attention
Something that looks bright and attractive but has no real value
A showy, tasteless decoration or piece of clothing
A quality of being showy and loud in style that hides simple beauty
A stylish, expensive look that shows someone is rich
A stylish, impressive appearance that shows wealth or good taste
Antonyms
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Saying something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, or bad than it really is
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Glitz comes from a Yiddish/German word meaning 'to sparkle' and is like the English word glitter. So glitz means a bright, showy shine that often hides a lack of real value.