gewgaw
noun
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Synonyms for gewgaw
Synonyms
bauble, bibelot, curio, curiosity, doodad, gaud, gimcrack, kickshaw, knickknack (also nicknack), novelty, ornamental, tchotchke, trinket
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Giveaways are a universal phenomenon, but Silicon Valley has made free gewgaws and gadgets an integral part of its culture. — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, "The internet promised us a world without borders. Ooops," 24 July 2019 The nihilistic gewgaw, vacuous and vulgar, instead embodies the mythos that can be manufactured in a crude market-culture that primarily values art as a luxury asset. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty’s marvelous ‘Book of Beasts’," 23 July 2019 Graphics: Your choice of desktop-class RTX 2060, 2070, or 2080 Display: Your choice of four 17.3-inch FHD (1920x1080) displays, with or without touch, with or without gewgaws like Tobii eye-tracking. — Melissa Riofrio, PCWorld, "The Alienware Area-51m is a desktop-class laptop both extreme and refined," 8 Jan. 2019 Bookstores should be designed to bring us closer together, not modeled after an open prairie dotted with books and assorted gewgaws — puzzles, Lego kits, Polaroid cameras. — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, "How to save Barnes & Noble? Take a page from the indie bookstores it nearly killed," 6 June 2018 Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney have all won Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and countless other prizes and gewgaws in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. — Glenn Whipp, latimes.com, "The Oscar acting races are locked ... probably," 20 Feb. 2018 If ever one needed proof that the real charm of jewellery has little to do with its material worth, one need only to listen to the Hoppen girls talking gems and gewgaws with their grandmother, the ever-glamorous Stephanie Hoppen. — A-LIST, "Family Jewels," 24 Dec. 2017 This gallery is no gewgaw emporium for hapless tourists but a handsomely shabby place with oriental rugs and a radio playing the Trout Quintet. — Ben Ryder Howe, Town & Country, "The Surprising Truth About Fake Art and How to Avoid Being Scammed," 25 Sep. 2017 What really moves the customers are electronic gewgaws that promise to make driving effortless and safer. — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, "2017 Jaguar XF 20d Diesel AWD," 11 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gewgaw.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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gewgaw
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