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"sparkly" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often glittery (8 letters).
Definitions
having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Word origin
From sparkle + -y.
Used in a sentence
“How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!”
“They sailed smilingly into the room, the woman ahead, rustling in a long, sparkly, black dress.”
“Then we drifted, with a head over ayther side, peerin' down through the sparkly water. For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Glittering brightly”7 letters
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