gimcrack

Example Sentences

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Imagine the damage such a salesman might do, stirring up dissatisfaction and unhappiness just to sell us a gimcrack agenda that we’d wish we had never bought.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

To call this tourist fare is merely to say that its appeal is generic and, yes, a bit gimcrack.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2018

True, much of commercial fiction, including some of the most successful titles, is gimcrack palaver.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2017

With their showy, gimcrack splendour, his novels are the 19th-century equivalent of Hollywood tinsel.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2013

Now perhaps three yards separated us, she standing in the rain, I with her gimcrack of an umbrella.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]