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
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
And she gleaned words of wisdom from an editorial by the Esquire restaurant critic Josh Ozersky, which ran in the New York Observer last year and rallied against the faddishness of food writing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
If, in lamenting the faddishness that has grown up about it, plain language has been used, I have nevertheless been as tolerant as the situation permits.
From Fishing and Shooting Sketches by Grover Cleveland
