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

Now plastic everywhere is thought such gimcrack stuff, ripe for landfill, and this attitude is passed off as naïve.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2016

From my little pod I surveyed a vast acreage of gimcrack houses and, beyond, the densely forested peaks of the mountains that surround Medellín.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

I was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)