kitsch

Example Sentences

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As Luis says of his own version of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” playing in his head, “Call it kitsch, call it camp — I don’t care, I love it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Fascist leaders need gargantuan physical symbols of their greatness, and both the architecture and the spectacles inevitably trend toward kitsch.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

The Robin Hood legend is one that can always stand up to a retelling, though remaking anything like the ’38 “Adventures of Robin Hood”—at least in the same tone of voice—would result in kitsch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Part of the reason those recipes look so alien to us now is that, in postwar America, food science was less kitsch than it was cutting-edge.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

But here she was now, disliking it with the haughty confidence of a person who recognized kitsch.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie