gimcrack
Example Sentences
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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
The movie burnishes the image of this visionary C.E.O. even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
The central Seoul district of Itaewon, once a gimcrack preserve of GIs and expatriates, is now awash in restaurants that give new meaning to the word “fusion” — starting with their owners.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2015
Rather unexpected, wasn’t it” 123 He then thought of what a fool he had been to give her back that gimcrack pistol.
From The Peace of Roaring River by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
