glitzyadj.

1966 N.Y. Times 31 Aug. 66/4 Advertising will stress that Devil Shake is ‘glitzy’. This claim will be hard to deny, at least until someone defines the word.

1968 Britannica Bk. of Year 745/1 John Kander's music,..Patricia Zipprodt's glitzy-tawdry costumes, and Ronald Field's wittily obscene choreography were fused..into a corrosively brilliant symbol of human depravity.

1975 New Yorker 5 May 138/2 This number, like the ballet as a whole, is much too restless and glitzy.

1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Nov. 1/4 The restaurants of the future..will..be big gala places with entertainment and booze-ups and big bills...The Cossacks has gone glitzy.

1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 5/3 The five man band play havoc-wreaking rock 'n' roll, much in the tacky, glitzy style of lamented British Bands such as Spearhead and the Heavy Metal Kids.

1979 Maclean's 28 May 51/1 But in a forum ringing with the clack of easy typewriters and the back-thumping of glitzy cynics, words like style, art, commitment are booed offstage.

1983 E. Leonard LaBrava (1985) i. 7 But look at the dressing room, all the glitzy crap, the tinfoil cheapness.

1985 Listener 21 Mar. 27/1 The Oscars are the high point of the Western film industry's year—a glitzy, vulgar affirmation that they're getting things right.

1977 New Republic 19 Feb. 21/2 Stoppard's plays have been marked by undergraduate cleverness and glitz and ultimate sterility.

1977 Time 4 July 52/2 Her style is often derivative of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, but Babitz has the one indispensable quality for her kind of work: true glitz.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 200/1 One American reviewer swooned over Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz's latest bundle of glitz.

1985 Toronto Life Sept. 41/3 There was too much Third-World esoterica and not enough Hollywood glitz.