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

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

There Will Be Blood was about entrepreneurial capitalism; was about entrepreneurial religion, gimcrack philosophy, prospecting for snake oil.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

So I’ll just place you on one of these gimcrack gilt chairs, and I’ll ask you to keep this one next, for me, until I make a raid on the table.

From Patty's Social Season by Wells, Carolyn