Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling spangles; having the glittering effect produced by many bright points.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins
Examples
“I dreamt last night that I went out for a drink with biscuitware and that halfway through the night he suddenly jumped up from his seat to perform an all-singing all-dancing musical number, accompanied by a well-rehearsed large chorus all in spangly costume.”
“La Klum herself is in New Balance along with a spangly black jumpsuit.”
“There will be no red carpet, no press junkets, no blast of flashlights and certainly no spangly gowns.”
“They're like a flock of parakeets: beautifully dressed in spangly cocktail frocks and silky playsuits, their hair groomed, their lips glossed.”
“Maybe, as they take Tiffin on the 9th hole and congratulate themselves on their new jobs, they should reflect on the so-called “Best Value” part of their spangly new “Citizen Focus” tactical delivery plan.”
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“Â But, among the archetypes we find the most puzzling of all the quirky AC supers: Â Beautie, a human-sized doll in a spangly pink costume, whose superhuman strength tends to put her (somewhat disconcertingly) right in the middle of the punching action, sort of like Wonder WomanÂhad she beenÂcreated by Andy Warhol.”
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“Tyrant in that spangly Thing 1/Thing 2 Vegas get-up with the red feather headdress will always sum up TOP MODEL to me.”
“Anita Khalwat wears heavy makeup, fake eyelashes, and a green spangly head scarf, loose dress, and pants fit for an Afghan wedding.”
“Once, after leaving a bar, we were crossing a street in the Village, I in my drab blend-in-at-all-costs raiment and Dee in some spangly getup, when a taxi grazed me, and Dennis blew his top, pounding on the hood of the cab and cursing the driver.”
“Not literally, but they get really large and you can see the blue of his irises all spangly and flecked around his dilated pupils.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spangly’.
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beads and trinkets
wampum, sewan, spangly, fusarole, passementerie, knurl, astragal, jequirity, wampumpeag, seawant, rigoll, purfle and 17 more...
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James Cridland's list of words he quite likes
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spume, moist, temerity, crapulent, buttress, cremulent, spangly, plethora, multitude, weighting
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