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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Prague is emerging from the pandemic with less touristic gimcrackery and more local flavor.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
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
There the Cupid still stood, looking like nothing more than a piece of Gilded Age gimcrackery.
From Time Magazine Archive
About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was like a good sanitary cubicle filled with second-hand gimcrackery, but still the same good cubicle, still in essentials exactly like a few thousand more.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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