(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
(n.) The fool's club.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(3) Baubles and tinsel lose their shine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sales of Christmas baubles fell.
(4) As if the past 50 years had never happened, as if one's own sexual destiny were a meaningless bauble, to be hung off the first john with a bank account who shows an interest.
(5) Marks & Spencer is offering fruit juice laced with glitter and smoked salmon topped with gold leaf; Sainsbury will be selling edible glistening Christmas baubles made from chocolate; while Asda is offering a glitter-topped version of the traditional pudding.
(6) An industry bauble, however deserved or appreciated, is unlikely to tempt her back into the spotlight.
(7) Will they reach for the How to Spend It supplement of the FT, looking for luxury baubles?
(8) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(9) Istiklal made Broadway look like a neon bauble, and the Champs Élysée seem insipid.
(10) He wasn't at Stamford Bridge long but they won the FA Cup to give him yet another bauble for his bulging trophy room back in Florida, where he had moved with his wife, Clar, who grew up in a Jamaican family in Brooklyn, and their three children.
(11) Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
(12) Many struggling newspaper groups would not look askance at an offer to become such a bauble in such difficult times and rumours still flourish that Lebedev could buy the Independent.
(13) The only problem is, by indulging their excitement, we're nurturing in them the same mindless-drone impulse that leads us to work like dogs in order to buy baubles with bubbles in.
(14) The Christmas tree was knocked over, the man stumbled and fell amongst the glass baubles which had fallen with the tree.
(15) Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck."
(16) Hundreds of delicate bamboo baubles hung from the walls.
(17) To be alive on Planet Earth is to be pinned by an unseen gravitational force beyond your control to the surface of an almighty bauble of death cluttered with sharp objects, death traps, diseases, disasters and killers concocting new and exotic means of inflicting agony upon your person, all of it revolving silently in an infinite and eternal vacuum, the sheer insensate vastness of which is simply too ghastly for the human mind to contemplate.
(18) He'd broken the office Christmas tree and stamped on the glass baubles.
(19) In doing this, he latterly admitted to adding baubles and colouring.
(20) Earlier, the London flyweight Charlie Edwards, a decorated amateur, became a seven-fight professional champion when he won all 10 rounds against the 27-year-old Belfast Cockney Luke Wilton to win the vacant WBC international “silver” belt, a bauble which might prove useful as a negotiating chip to bigger things.
Gewgaw
Definition:
(n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
(a.) Showy; unreal; pretentious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, with the initial euphoria subsided, the time has come to see just how playable these new gewgaws actually are.
(2) Luckily, George Lucas had the foresight to license his creation to toy companies, so children could harass their parents to buy them officially branded gewgaws.
(3) Consumers who still “aspire” to own something by the brand will theoretically then spend less money on some proportionately even more overpriced gewgaw such as a purse or keyring.