gimcrackery

noun

gim·​crack·​ery -kərē 

-ri

plural -es

1

: a quantity of gimcracks

colored candles and gimcrackery … of odd origin

—Kathryn Hulme

2

: cheap, contrived, or shoddy effects or expedients

his interpretations are quite without sentimental gimcrackery

—Virgil Thomson

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