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Значения термина gimcrackery на английском

Ornamental objects of no great value.

Синонимы
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
Использование термина gimcrackery на английском
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 через время