kitschy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitschy
Adjective
  • After a season of gaudy stats, but a few high-leverage failures (4 runs vs. Yankees; failure to appear against his old squad, the Phils).
    Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The paintings of Mickalene Thomas are big, bold, gaudy, and beautiful, embedded with rhinestones, daubed with phosphorescent color, and composed like crazy quilts.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The show’s graphic designer Tansy Michaud designed the cover, which, with its garish red-and-yellow cover and text about self-actualization, was meant to be a little graphically obnoxious.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Image Those actions were, apparently, tawdry means to an end.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Managers leapt at the chance to democratize theater and shed the tawdrier aspects of its reputation, and pantomime was a great way to do so.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The film will also likely need Baker to surpass some showy directorial achievements for Neon to claim its second-ever best picture winner.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The rest of the cast is excellent too, in both the showier roles — Quinto as Mark, plunged into despair; Woodley as Diana, devolving into derangement — and the quieter ones.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • While its interior design is less flashy than rivals from Ferrari and Lamborghini, the aesthetic is pleasing, and outward visibility is excellent.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 6 Jan. 2023
  • If McCarthy falls shorts, that hands leverage to people are every bit as extreme as Greene, though slightly less flashy about it—Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • In fact, the conservative girl makeup look is deliberately ostentatious and badly done.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Many rally attendees wore their support in markers ranging from the subtle to ostentatious.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Denzel Washington stars as Macrinus, a meretricious arms dealer who own a stable of gladiators, while Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger are brothers and ruling emperors.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 1 July 2024
  • But as a character study, with Holocaust themes deepening the stakes of the domestic turmoil, the play holds up extremely well in its critique of a world that has lost its capacity for silence and that is prepared to sacrifice literature for meretricious distraction.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
Adjective
  • This production replaces the Orientalist extravaganza that Sonya Frisell directed in 1988 and that came to define the grand-opera experience — dazzling, uplifting, gloriously tacky — for two generations.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Prada card wallet Some designer logos and labels are loud and often seem tacky as opposed to luxurious.
    Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Kitschy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitschy. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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