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

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

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

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015

Well, according to rule, she came in, found fault with the clock, but took care not to have it altered to match her gimcrack French affair in her bedroom, which she always called her pendule.

From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville