gimcrack
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Synonyms & Antonyms for gimcrack
Synonyms: Noun
bauble, bibelot, curio, curiosity, doodad, gaud, gewgaw (also geegaw), kickshaw, knickknack (also nicknack), novelty, ornamental, tchotchke, trinket
Synonyms: Adjective
bad, bargain-basement, bum, cheap, cheapjack, cheesy, coarse, common, crappy [slang], cut-rate, el cheapo, execrable, inferior, junky, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mediocre, miserable, poor, rotten, rubbishy, schlock (or schlocky), second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, terrible, trashy, trumpery, wretched
Antonyms: Adjective
excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, good, high-grade, superior, top-notch
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Examples of gimcrack in a Sentence
Noun
a remarkable amount of money is spent on gimcracks and other unnecessary items each year that woman has enough gimcracks to fill up a novelty company's mail-order catalogAdjective
a store plastered with “going out of business” signs and notorious for selling gimcrack merchandise
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
So will the border continue to vanish in the face of nativist backlash and a trumpery, gimcrack wall? — Felipe Fernández-armesto, WSJ, "‘Vanishing Frontiers’ Review: The Ties That Bind," 25 June 2018 Science fiction on the screen had been pinched, gimcrack, borderline laughable. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, "‘2001’ is a space odyssey, but 2018 is a Kubrick moment," 10 May 2018 The 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. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, "with the headline: Summertime, and the Revivals are Breezy.," 16 Aug. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gimcrack.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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