gimcrackery
Americannoun
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cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
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obvious or contrived effects, especially in art, music, literature, etc.
Etymology
Origin of gimcrackery
Example Sentences
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Prague is emerging from the pandemic with less touristic gimcrackery and more local flavor.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery.
From Time Magazine Archive
About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It eliminates all show business gimcrackery and focuses attention on the music."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Mine," says DIVINITY, "pursue a system of gimcrackery, Called Puseyism, a pack of stuff, and quite as arrant quackery."
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
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