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something that is of low quality but that many people find amusing and enjoyable
The restaurant is decorated with 1950s furniture and kitsch from old TV shows.
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Recent Examples of kitsch
Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
The 11-room Six Bells Countryside Inn is a maximalist country-kitsch exploration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Riza Cruz, Vogue, 11 May 2026
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Noun
Read Full Review Getty Venice Beach Get past the boardwalk—though there is a charm to its kitsch—and take a surf lesson or ride a bike along the path.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
The 11-room Six Bells Countryside Inn is a maximalist country-kitsch exploration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
The Formica interior is from the 1960s and is wonderfully kitsch, perfect for that Insta photo.
—Riza Cruz, Vogue, 11 May 2026
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Noun
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Add the flour, Parmesan cheese, eggs and 1/2 teaspoon salt.—
Kate Williams,
AJC.com,
18 May 2026
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Arrange 2 or 3 jalapeño slices, a teaspoon-size dab pimiento cheese, and one sausage on each pastry strip.—
Shelly Westerhausen Worcel,
Midwest Living,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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The kitschy Bubble Room restaurant is serving up its legendary sky-high slices of cake, and Captiva Cruises has a full schedule of sunset, wildlife watching, and sightseeing tours plying the local waterways.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
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The catalyst of all the tragedy that Bear incites is the One Wish Willow, a kitschy antique toy that promises to grant one (literal) wish for whoever snaps it in half.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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Blackwood, and a spotty defense on junk in front of the net, provided the smelling salts.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
14 May 2026
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The district’s bond rating now sits at junk status, meaning BB+ and below under Fitch Ratings’ scale.—
Chaewon Chung,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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This is really a series of different phone designs, some quite radically different from each other, all unified by a garish sense of luxury.—
Dominic Preston,
The Verge,
1 May 2026
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Not because of the roving packs of teenagers or even the garish displays of overconsumption, but because mall architecture was high art.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Trash pickup Chris Barnett, Orion Township supervisor, said residents of his community will be allowed to place more bagged trash outside at their next Waste Management pickup day to help handle overflow rubbish from paper plates, etc.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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From the Japanese point of view, leaving rubbish piled up in a stadium would be a bother to others.—
Stephen Wade,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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However, these seemingly gaudy detours end up retrofitted to Jude’s larger point about power structures in modern Europe as well, when the camera eventually pulls back to focus on specifics of the production.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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The furor has dampened the festivities of the normally high-camp, joyful, gaudy extravaganza, in which acts representing different, mostly European countries each perform a song, competing to be crowned the winner after a public and jury vote.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
15 May 2026
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Why should New Yorkers pay more than half a billion dollars annually just to get rid of trash and make other communities sick?—
Justin Sanchez,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Allowing people to obtain free water using their own reusable bottles will cut down on the waste produced by plastic bottles, which end up in the trash and ultimately take up space in landfills for hundreds of years, officials said.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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For those who know the play well, some of Mantello’s choices are most striking, especially the horror here of the famous hotel-room scene with a tawdry lover (brutally played by Katherine Romans), an act born of loneliness that destroys a father’s relationship with his son forever.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Kitsch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitsch. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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