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

Beneath the gimcrack pretext, one simple reason: The court didn’t like the law.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015

The spirit of the late 1950s was brash, gimcrack modernity.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

But the terrors of the swamped car, that snuffling threat of steam ahead–a deep bass uz-z-z!–momentarily made a gimcrack of other things too–of everything but the desperate instinct to get out–free, somehow.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine