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Significados de gimcrackery en inglés

Ornamental objects of no great value.

      Sinónimos
      Examples for "nonsense"
      Examples for "nonsense"
      1
      Her intuitive capacity was impressive, along with her no-nonsense approach to conflict.
      Map of bones
      2
      Meanwhile, Glynnis Breytenbach brings her no-nonsense approach to the Shadow Justice Ministry.
      The South African
      3
      This is all the greatest nonsense I ever heard in the world.
      The Prime Minister
      4
      Of course what she said was the greatest nonsense in the world.
      The Eustace Diamonds
      5
      It is all nonsense, of course; just foolish talk of the villagers.
      Dear Brutus
      1
      Some cases of trumpery rosaries were found and dispatched the same way.
      Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution
      2
      This trumpery business with the cigarette revolutionised my whole feelings towards Boyce.
      The Red Planet
      3
      Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his trumpery love.
      The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
      4
      Well, there's been a lot of trouble over a trumpery wooden idol.
      A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
      5
      What does he do with all his rhetorical trumpery at such times?
      Flamsted quarries
      1
      The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
      St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1...
      2
      A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
      Storm Front
      3
      Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
      The Late Miss Hollingford
      4
      I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
      The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
      5
      Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
      A Tale of Two Cities
      1
      I took out the little gimcrack I use to clean my pipe.
      One night stands & lost weekends
      2
      Lancing on board thet gimcrack boat, an' ain't tuh be depended on.
      Chums in Dixie; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
      3
      Falco, the man with this gimcrack export market is-AtiusPertinax.
      The Silver Pigs
      4
      The spirit of a whiter, rockier music hangs over Geremy Jasper's gimcrack hip-hop epic.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Even so, its pale-biscuit siding was gimcrack vinyl, its chalk-white trim a flimsy metal.
      The Guardian
      Uso de gimcrackery en inglés
      1
      The great Mr. Acton taken in by a bit of Palais Royal gimcrackery!
      The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
      2
      The resulting object, made with thought and care, was intended as a soulful reproach to the gimcrackery of industrialised batch production.
      The Guardian
      3
      "The gimcrackery," he answered.
      A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
      4
      "A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of gimcrackery."
      Septimus
      Gimcrackery a través del tiempo