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
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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
A plan dressed in all the gimcrackery of Hollywood was last week mushrooming across the country as an alleged solution for war-plant absenteeism.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the Cupid still stood, looking like nothing more than a piece of Gilded Age gimcrackery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled.
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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