as in cheap
of low quality
a store plastered with "going out of business" signs and notorious for selling gimcrack merchandise
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as in ornamental
a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest
a remarkable amount of money is spent on gimcracks and other unnecessary items each year their apartment has enough gimcracks to fill up a novelty company's warehouse
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Recent Examples of gimcrack
A.a. Dowd,
Chron,
5 Jan. 2023
The movie works hard to be a soulfully offbeat kiddie entertainment, an antidote to the gimcrack cynicism that has ruled too many cartoon-cutup-in-the-land-of-live-action Hollywood products.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2022
The inevitable flood tide of gimcrack Biden souvenirs has yet to start in earnest, but there are some.
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New York Times,
6 Dec. 2020
So will the border continue to vanish in the face of nativist backlash and a trumpery, gimcrack wall?
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
WSJ,
25 June 2018
Science fiction on the screen had been pinched, gimcrack, borderline laughable.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 May 2018
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January is a multiplex clearance sale, littered with horror movies as gimcrack as the unsold toys wheeled out after the holidays.
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A.a. Dowd,
Chron,
5 Jan. 2023
The movie works hard to be a soulfully offbeat kiddie entertainment, an antidote to the gimcrack cynicism that has ruled too many cartoon-cutup-in-the-land-of-live-action Hollywood products.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2022
The inevitable flood tide of gimcrack Biden souvenirs has yet to start in earnest, but there are some.
—
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2020
So will the border continue to vanish in the face of nativist backlash and a trumpery, gimcrack wall?
—
Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
WSJ,
25 June 2018
Science fiction on the screen had been pinched, gimcrack, borderline laughable.
—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimcrack
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The revolution won’t come cheap.
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Across six online experiments, the researchers showed participants a cheaper lower-quality item such as a sweater alongside a pricier higher-quality version.
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The plant was a Japanese yew, an ornamental that is toxic and deadly to horses, according to the report.
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Many of the plants on this list can be interplanted with ornamentals in garden beds and around your patio or deck.
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Against Australia in the last 16, Argentina were again labouring when faced with an inferior opponent, digging in and determined to spoil their World Cup dreams.
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Uruguay tied again, this time a 2-2 stalemate against another adversary that less than two weeks ago, pretty much every soccer pundit would have deemed inferior.
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These ornaments were originally intended to symbolize speed, elegance and technological optimism.
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In one clip, Horner could be seen holding a ring box that had been hung like an ornament on a Christmas tree.
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The production quality was terrible.
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But in May of 1943, a terrible fire burned his studio to the ground.
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Rebecca Lowe joins Dan Patrick to discuss some of the top storylines around the World Cup, including Cristiano Ronaldo's poor play to start, the United States' potential and more.
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Will the gap between rural and urban America – and the gap between rich and poor America – decline or grow?
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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Are those still your worst fears?
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While a higher tracker error is not bad in and of itself, most investors become uncomfortable when their portfolio acts so differently from the index.
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“Gimcrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gimcrack. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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