gimcrack
Example Sentences
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By shining a critical light on the American stage, he exposed the gimcrack that had been fobbed off as treasure and in the process made room for the genuine.
From Los Angeles Times
To call this tourist fare is merely to say that its appeal is generic and, yes, a bit gimcrack.
From Los Angeles Times
He buried its imperfections under a pile of gimcracks.
There our hero explains how realising the gimcrack nature of Ikea-like consumerism led him to choose another more spiritually enlivening lifestyle path, namely getting beaten crapless by strangers suffering the same white-collar existential malaise.
From The Guardian
State and local officials are selling off public gimcracks acquired in happier times as they struggle to cover basics like payroll and pensions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
