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

True, much of commercial fiction, including some of the most successful titles, is gimcrack palaver.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2017

Now plastic everywhere is thought such gimcrack stuff, ripe for landfill, and this attitude is passed off as naïve.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2016

“Inventing gimcrack things like that,” said the fellow in a tone of contempt, “to try and take the bread out of honest men’s mouths.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville