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Meanings of gimcrack in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "nonsense"
Examples for "nonsense"
1
Her intuitive capacity was impressive, along with her no-nonsense approach to conflict.
2
Meanwhile, Glynnis Breytenbach brings her no-nonsense approach to the Shadow Justice Ministry.
3
This is all the greatest nonsense I ever heard in the world.
4
Of course what she said was the greatest nonsense in the world.
5
It is all nonsense, of course; just foolish talk of the villagers.
1
Some cases of trumpery rosaries were found and dispatched the same way.
2
This trumpery business with the cigarette revolutionised my whole feelings towards Boyce.
3
Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his trumpery love.
4
Well, there's been a lot of trouble over a trumpery wooden idol.
5
What does he do with all his rhetorical trumpery at such times?
1
The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
2
A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
3
Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
4
I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
5
Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
1
The great Mr. Acton taken in by a bit of Palais Royal gimcrackery!
2
The resulting object, made with thought and care, was intended as a soulful reproach to the gimcrackery of industrialised batch production.
3
"The gimcrackery," he answered.
4
"A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of gimcrackery."
Usage of gimcrack in английском
1
I took out the little gimcrack I use to clean my pipe.
2
Lancing on board thet gimcrack boat, an' ain't tuh be depended on.
3
Falco, the man with this gimcrack export market is-AtiusPertinax.
4
The spirit of a whiter, rockier music hangs over Geremy Jasper's gimcrack hip-hop epic.
5
Even so, its pale-biscuit siding was gimcrack vinyl, its chalk-white trim a flimsy metal.
6
And I feared also that they experimented too with some gimcrack form of Creole mysticism.
7
It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.
8
You won't live in an old manor like this, but among gimcrack little 'arty' houses.
9
And these here gimcrack houses, they won't stand no more pecking at than a soap-sud.
10
I hate modern villas,' retorted Gwen, 'with gimcrack walls and smoky chimneys and bad drainage!
11
They must live in gimcrack suburban villas, and "give parties."
12
I supposed it to hold some pretty gimcrack, sent as a pleasant parting token of remembrance.
13
What do you say if we take this money and buy her some little personal gimcrack?
14
Because it means that you really think you're doing something with your gimcrack contraption, whatever it is.
15
Peering through the boughs, I saw a man seated in the smallest and most gimcrack of donkey-carts.
16
She hobbles together a gimcrack plan, hooks up with a pal and cranks it into awkward motion.
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