glossy

CEFRC1

/ˈɡlɒsi/

adjective · noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.
1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19
This divisive populist electro may never shake its myriad detractors who cry foul about the glossy repackaging of the scene it’s largely indebted to, but it’s wrong to dismiss such meticulously crafted production because of its accessibility.
2015 December 25, “20 Best Albums of 2015”, in Genius
His roster of patients was drawn almost exclusively from among what he liked to call creative people, chiefly writers and painters and composers, and he talked about them so freely that I sometimes half expected him to put up autographed glossies around the office, like the ones on the wall at the Stage Deli.
1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker
Black and white 8- × 10-inch glossies are best, but 5- × 7-inch is okay too. Place photos on top of cardboard when mailing. Don't tape or paper-clip because doing so can ruin the photo.
2013, Stacy Zemon, The DJ Sales and Marketing Handbook
Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.
1959, Film Review, page 102

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From gloss + -y.