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
"As if I didn't know that every last gimcrack in this miserable room would fairly scream at him the moment he entered that door!"
From The Road to Understanding by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
