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 designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2016
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
An amphitheatrical triumphal car was provided, and, upon it, were mounted O’Connell, his son, and the Rev. Dr. Miley, and this gimcrack piece of property was drawn by six horses ridden by postillions.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
