fad
noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
Example Sentences
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But the critics of faddishness have one thing right.
From Economist ● Nov. 24, 2016
Moody, cooler shades that have no whiff of faddishness enrich an early-20th-century master bath in Riga, Latvia, designed by Filippo Carandini and Maria Rodina of Milan’s Linee Studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2016
Even Amanda Cohen, the New York chef whose Dirt Candy restaurant was way ahead of the curve in celebrating vegetables, worries about the potential faddishness of the movement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2015
But condiments are unusually susceptible to faddishness, Nealon said, and fast food helped cement tomato ketchup’s remarkably long dominance.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2015
It takes no account of a large mass of verse which leaves an impression of faddishness in the matter of form or phrase or subject.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
