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
"It eliminates all show business gimcrackery and focuses attention on the music."
From Time Magazine Archive
That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Brock Yates, the curmudgeonly columnist for Car and Driver, questions the demand for this technological gimcrackery by suggesting that consumers can be dumb about smart devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, among all that rather trashy lacquer and glass in that rather gimcrackery little drawing-room of hers.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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