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
The designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2016
Beneath the gimcrack pretext, one simple reason: The court didn’t like the law.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2015
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
Whenever we gathered in his house he would offer, unsolicited, to explain and exhibit a gimcrack he had made with his father's tools, and we did scarcely any studying.
From A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi
