| 单词 | gimcrack |
| 释义 | gimcrack (once / 18526 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY gimcrack: gimcrackery, gimcracks+/gimcrackery: gimcrackeries USAGE EXAMPLESThe designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames. New York Times(Aug 16, 2016) When it comes to ludicrous, gimcrack wish-fulfillment, each of us is entitled to our own favorite flavor. Slate(Jun 23, 2016) Now plastic everywhere is thought such gimcrack stuff, ripe for landfill, and this attitude is passed off as naïve. New York Times(Apr 21, 2016) 1adj tastelessly showy Syn brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste 2n ornamental objects of no great value Syn|Hyper falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery decoration, ornament, ornamentation something used to beautify |
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