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Gimcrack

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Noun

1. falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery

ornamental objects of no great value

Adjective

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

tastelessly showy

Example Sentences:
'a flash car'
'a flashy ring'
'garish colors'
'a gaudy costume'
'loud sport shirts'
'a meretricious yet stylish book'
'tawdry ornaments'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Gimcrack

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adjective
1. 
cheap; shoddy
noun
2. 
a cheap showy trifle or gadget

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Gimcrack

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adjective
1. 
showy but cheap and useless
noun
2. 
a cheap, showy, useless thing

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Gimcrack

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n.
A cheap and showy object of little or no use; a gewgaw.
adj.
Cheap and tasteless; gaudy: gimcrack souvenirs.

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