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
When it comes to ludicrous, gimcrack wish-fulfillment, each of us is entitled to our own favorite flavor.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2016
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
The spirit of the late 1950s was brash, gimcrack modernity.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
Some parson has erected here a new, intensely vulgar gimcrack house that almost touches the hoary ruins, it is so close to them.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
