gimcrack

Example Sentences

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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

When it comes to ludicrous, gimcrack wish-fulfillment, each of us is entitled to our own favorite flavor.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2016

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

The central Seoul district of Itaewon, once a gimcrack preserve of GIs and expatriates, is now awash in restaurants that give new meaning to the word “fusion” — starting with their owners.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2015

For," said Sticky Smith, before they went aboard the transport at New Orleans, "if you dress a man in khaki, with some gimcrack on his sleeve and collar, you're level with anybody in Europe.

From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)