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

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

From my little pod I surveyed a vast acreage of gimcrack houses and, beyond, the densely forested peaks of the mountains that surround Medellín.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

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

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015

Whether it is a house or a human character, a binding or a book, it proves itself gimcrack and shoddy.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis