gimmick
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The Complex slideshows were gimmicked so that each entry was nested in its own bespoke webpage; scrolling through 100 slides would translate into 100 unique pageviews.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2023
His voice is less gimmicked, the keyboard chords are gospel and the vocals have the hip-hop flow of “Trapped in the Closet,” as Mr. Kelly attacks naysayers and shows he can sing again.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2013
Rarely trusting the playwright's lines to speak for themselves, the company gimmicked up the play with whoops and simpers, vaudeville pratfalls and putty noses.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was 300 sinful years before the era of the office party, the department-store Santa and all the gimmicked cheer.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he had been anyone but Perfidion he would have gimmicked the controls of the Yore so that Mallory would have wound up directly in the fifteenth century sans sojourn in the sixth.
From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.
Vocabulary lists containing gimmick
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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