Meaning of gimcrack | Babel Free

Definitions

Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

not-comparable

Examples

“For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste⟳, if it may be called taste⟳ at all, can be no more referred to correct⟳ principles of design⟳ than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty.”

“It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look⟳ at her own⟳ hands after she had done a day's work⟳ with them.”

“'The Rape of the Lock⟳' was 'gimcrack,' if you care to call⟳ it so; but it was a delicate brilliant work⟳; and so, I repeat⟳, was Maltby's 'Ariel'.”

““He scribbled something on a message pad, tore, folded, gave” and “ ‘G-Gay?’ puzzled Bev” are fair examples of Mr. Burgess’s gimcrack contortions.”

“The movie burnishes the image of this visionary C.E.O. [Steve Jobs] even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence.”

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