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
True, much of commercial fiction, including some of the most successful titles, is gimcrack palaver.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2017
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
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)
