gimmicky
Example Sentences
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I tried to talk him out of what I believed to be a gimmicky violation of the being-in-the-moment spirit of Cage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Yet a less gimmicky video, straightforwardly listing the five things he said he had done in his first week as PM, got five million.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The humanoids are still better at gimmicky tricks than useful household tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I’ve read criticisms of the Doomsday Clock, that it’s gimmicky, like it’s arbitrarily trying to measure something that can’t be defined so easily.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
All the cubist stuff was gimmicky, as far as she was concerned.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
