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Meanings of
gimcrack
(gimcracks)
in English
Tastelessly showy.
loud
flash
cheap
gaudy
flashy
garish
tawdry
tacky
brassy
trashy
Related terms
tasteless
Ornamental objects of no great value.
nonsense
trumpery
frill
gimcrackery
folderal
falderol
Synonyms
Examples for "
loud
"
loud
flash
cheap
gaudy
flashy
Examples for "
loud
"
1
Their message is
loud
and clear: fix the broken food aid system.
2
Of course, I'd known Amelia's problem before she'd said it out
loud
.
3
We need to send Maliki's government a strong message,
loud
and clear.
4
Out
loud
she spoke English: I wish I'd brought my passport today.
5
Conclusions: Persistent,
loud
snoring was associated with higher rates of problem behaviors.
1
Water flowing underground News
flash
:
scientists say there's water in Wellington Harbour.
2
The Fiji Met Service said heavy rain may lead to
flash
flooding.
3
They were given a new sense of urgency after the
flash
crash.
4
I picked my way toward the point where I'd seen the
flash
.
5
In another
flash
of lightning, he saw clearly: the car was gone.
1
Political words on issues of great note to Indigenous people are
cheap
.
2
Labor was very
cheap
in China, as well as Canton and Shanghai.
3
Farmers markets are plentiful and offer another option for great,
cheap
food.
4
That's a great global franchise, great management, it's
cheap
on book value.
5
A slew of products now address the problem-butthey don't come
cheap
.
1
The dust rolled in clouds over the
gaudy
wagons of the menagerie.
2
How stiff they were in shape and yet how
gaudy
in colour.
3
She went into ecstasies over the
gaudy
plates in the fashion paper.
4
They rode hell-for-leather down the streets,
gaudy
outfits glittering in the sun.
5
And there really is a certain force in the too
gaudy
setting.
1
Question 4: RIM has a
flashy
new BlackBerry handset to show off.
2
The Summer faeries need the
flashy
things; it's part of their trade.
3
The national temper, in the civil history, is not
flashy
or whiffling.
4
Yes, the latest gadgets like GPS watches are extremely cool and
flashy
.
5
Being independent isn't as
flashy
as a lot of people may think.
1
Large, sealed portholes looked out onto a garden of
garish
sea plants.
2
But the old beliefs seemed dim; the new ones,
garish
and confused.
3
And it flourishes by gaslight; by day it is
garish
and forlorn.
4
There are no
garish
rubber wristbands or long lines of cars outside.
5
She couldn't imagine a snooty society maven ever wearing something so
garish
.
1
Sometimes he had given the
tawdry
claims more credence than at others.
2
I try to focus on outlandish scenarios, images of exotic,
tawdry
humiliation.
3
The door opened, and in marched Mrs. Trebooze, tall,
tawdry
,
and terrible.
4
The supper-room, garish and
tawdry
in its decorations, was functioning as usual.
5
The decorations do not seem
tawdry
,
nor the tinsel other than real.
1
An American would probably think you were just saying the word
'
tacky
'
.
2
That is a different place, you see, this is a different
tacky
.
3
It applies smoothly and without that
tacky
feeling so many sunscreens have.
4
Is the prosecutor referring to her conviction rate, which is just
tacky
.
5
The result could easily have been pure treacle or just very
tacky
.
1
It was to them like the
brassy
and lacquered life in hotels.
2
Tough as nails, the
brassy
broad had lost her perspective on humanity.
3
He sniffed up the
brassy
and clicking music into his vibrating nostrils.
4
What we need is a
brassy
tequila sunrise of a cocktail dress.
5
Above them the sky glared a
brassy
blue with never a could.
1
And just how damaging were its
trashy
,
consumerist values on the population?
2
It had seemed so vital before; now it seemed absurd and
trashy
.
3
It is knowingly, unabashedly
trashy
and tells you so at every opportunity.
4
Then I got interested in grunge,
trashy
90s Ibiza anthems and pop.
5
They make it simple and
trashy
,
but there is death behind it.
1
The
tatty
shop was just down the road from where we played.
2
There's just something funny and likable about your average, everyday,
tatty
pigeon.
3
His
tatty
shoes were falling apart, and he only had shorts on.
4
Gradually the tavern did not seem
tatty
and rude, but excitingly wicked.
5
But beneath this
tatty
comfort blanket, there are two starkly naked truths.
1
There is not a
meretricious
or humiliating book in the whole collection.
2
Gloriani's statues were florid and
meretricious
;
they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
3
The
meretricious
melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
4
The over-rated, overpaid, and most
meretricious
painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
5
It's a
meretricious
parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
Usage of
gimcracks
in English
1
About antiquities, the old
gimcracks
that people pay so much for today.
2
Let me know if the
gimcracks
come safe- Imeanthe book, etc.
3
My girl is taking me out shopping, to buy
gimcracks
and things!
4
The
gimcracks
he loved to make were all for the public rooms below.
5
Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and
gimcracks
of all sorts.
6
Japan wanted neither the friendship of Russia nor her
gimcracks
.
7
Such fugitive
gimcracks
as they had brought away with them decorated the little salon.
8
Golden eyes focused like lenses over winking jewels and
gimcracks
.
9
Expectation interspersed with
gimcracks
seems to be the programme.
10
Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the
gimcracks
.
11
Lashmar stretched his legs, smiled at the
gimcracks
shelved and niched above the mantelpiece, and began talking.
12
There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their
gimcracks
and trumpery.
13
But me and the Judge was sure we could round up a wagonful of candidates for your
gimcracks
.
14
We men want space, not
gimcracks
.
15
Mebby the young lady in thar kin show me the things and tell me the names of yer Yankee
gimcracks
.
16
These serve as playthings for the grown-ups, many of whom, especially the Indians and Eskimos, are quite childlike with
gimcracks
.
Other examples for "gimcracks"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
gimcracks
gimcrack
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
broken gimcracks
buy gimcracks
cheap gimcracks
common gimcracks
female gimcracks
More collocations
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