Thesaurus / gewgaw
FEEDBACKHow to use gewgaw in a sentence
Here again the gewgaw of royal parade was intended to entrap the admiration of the ignorant.
SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE THE THIRD TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE FOURTH, VOLUME I (OF 2)LADY ANNE HAMILTONCompare it for a moment with the gewgaw skimble-skamble diplomatic sensationalism with which we have been presented since.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, VOLUME 36, NOVEMBER 1879VARIOUSSome of them have been won by a mess of pottage, a mere bauble or a gewgaw.
PRISONS AND PRAYER: OR A LABOR OF LOVEELIZABETH RYDER WHEATONPatient investigation reveals a lacquered toilet-box with a mirror under the lid, a cheap and nasty gewgaw.
'NEATH VERDUN, AUGUST-OCTOBER, 1914MAURICE GENEVOIXShe wondered what Madame Beattie thought she could get out of giving up the adored gewgaw into other hands.
THE PRISONERALICE BROWNWhat may that gaudy gewgaw lady be, that throws such scornful looks upon our galleries?
A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYSROBERT DODSLEYThe crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,—their ambition and their spirit are undecayed!
ZANONIEDWARD BULWER LYTTONAnd all of them with some gewgaw to be blessed in the Virgin's bowl.
A LITTLE PILGRIMAGE IN ITALYOLAVE M. (OLAVE MURIEL) POTTERIt thus immediately took its place as a new gewgaw of the rich; that it had any other purpose to serve had occurred to few people.
THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESSBURTON J. HENDRICKAny little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily.
THE INNOCENTS ABROADMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)WORDS RELATED TO GEWGAW
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