gimcrack

How to use gimcrack in a sentence

• About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton.

  The Longest Journey | E. M. Forster

• When gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace.

  December Love | Robert Hichens

• I was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required.

  Witching Hill | E. W. Hornung

• Dominating the town is the two-or three-story “Queen Hotel,” the last word in flamboyant, gimcrack hideousness.

  Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska | Rockwell Kent

• There were many flowers in the room—some in Cloisonne vases, others in gimcrack vessels such as are bought at country fairs.

  Simon the Jester | William J. Locke