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
Although the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has lamentably cornered the market on overwrought laser-light-filled musical gimcrackery for the Christmas holiday season, there are more than enough holidays to allow its smaller-scale admirers to try their luck.
From Time
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 Project Gutenberg
The expense, hype and setting couldn’t match Nature’s own spectacle at the main part of the canyon, run by the National Park Service — an immensity that makes all human enterprise seem like petty gimcrackery.
From New York Times
Well, Mrs. Waterlow evidently didn't think it gimcrackery, or, if she did, she didn't mind.
From Project Gutenberg
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