gimcrack

Example Sentences

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Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 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

When it comes to ludicrous, gimcrack wish-fulfillment, each of us is entitled to our own favorite flavor.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2016

There Will Be Blood was about entrepreneurial capitalism; was about entrepreneurial religion, gimcrack philosophy, prospecting for snake oil.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

She's out there in the flowing arbor, sewing some gimcrack thing and pretending she hasn't been worrying because I was out on the course.

From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery