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gilded

[gil-did]

adjective

  1. covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.

  2. having a pleasing or showy appearance that conceals something of little worth.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • nongilded adjective
  • ungilded adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gilded1

before 1000; gild 1 + -ed 2; replacing Middle English gild, Old English gegyld
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In the decade since his descent down a gilded escalator — and emergence as the most dominant and consequential political figure of the 21st century — Trump has proven himself a peerless master of distraction and deflection.

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Resplendent in finery that makes her resemble a gilded black widow spider, the Director coaches kids to dance and brawl until they bleed.

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Those beautiful Cézannes and Picassos in the Guggenheim Museum can’t paper over the atrocities; the gilded myths of American optimism, our upward mobility and welcoming shores won’t mask the demons.

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Paul said he couldn't believe his fellow conservatives were falling in line behind the bill, just because it carries the gilded imprimatur.

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But where else would you find a gilded temple floating in the middle of one of the city’s most savage intersections?

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