adjective
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glossy or polished; bright
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(of clothes or material) worn to a smooth and glossy state, as by continual rubbing
Other Word Forms
- shinily adverb
- shininess noun
- unshiny adjective
Etymology
Origin of shiny
Example Sentences
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Stilfold has developed a robot that can crease sheet metal and the company has, to date, used the method to manufacture chassis for 200 shiny metal electric motorcycles, which are now being shipped to customers.
From BBC
In a converse way, Kay and Down’s reluctance to be so clean, so shiny and so heteronormative with their characters is just as forward-thinking as any media that conjures a conventional picture of equality.
From Salon
The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.
Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.
From Barron's
Not one shiny piece of metal could be seen.
From Literature
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