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

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

As a rule, they are of a flimsy and gimcrack order of architecture.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen