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

The designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016

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

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2016

The central Seoul district of Itaewon, once a gimcrack preserve of GIs and expatriates, is now awash in restaurants that give new meaning to the word “fusion” — starting with their owners.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2015

Rather unexpected, wasn’t it” 123 He then thought of what a fool he had been to give her back that gimcrack pistol.

From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)