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 movie burnishes the image of this visionary C.E.O. even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2015
Beneath the gimcrack pretext, one simple reason: The court didn’t like the law.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015
If you bang it, it's my belief the whole gimcrack will be about your ears.
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
