(v. t.) Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
(v. t.) To fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s nothing new-fangled at the Stockyards; clientele is fridge-size men and Barbie-haired women saying “cute jacket” to each other.
(2) Virtual currencies aren't just a new-fangled sort of Monopoly money.
(3) He gets strapped to a table with a new-fangled laser beam pointed at his private parts: the best Bond-in-peril scene and one that is not easily escapable – our man's family jewels remain intact only thanks to the villain's inexplicable reluctance to deliver the coup de grace.
(4) But Coates had convinced her boss to check out a couple of these new-fangled nouvelle vague films, 'Chabrol and that sort of thing'.
(5) Loaded was unsophisticated, but it acknowledged that men could enjoy a contradictory array of pursuits, from outdoor sports to indoor pub games, new-fangled technology like the internet to the traditional male love of football, war and aggression.
(6) Back to the 1950s, when 18-year-olds got their heads down and scribbled furiously for three hours on the causes of the English civil war or character development in Pride and Prejudice, without any new-fangled nonsense of course assessment, projects, modules and media studies, while the streets stayed free of drugs, children respected their elders, and Winston Churchill resided in Downing Street.
(7) Victorian novels are replete with characters – particularly women characters – who exhibit what we might recognise now as some of the symptoms of anxiety disorders, from fainting to hysteria: manifestations of inner turmoil that would, in real life, have had the phrenologists running to examine their heads, and the hydropathists rushing to welcome them to their new-fangled spas (cold-water remedies were particularly popular when it came to treating what our ancestors regarded as a form of madness).
(8) Crops were swamped in their fields and the "new-fangled" tractors proved useless in the mud.
(9) I venture that the people, many of them women, who believe such things are unlikely to be swayed by new-fangled notions of equality.
(10) The Guardian's Tax Gap series this year established that a major motivation for metamorphosing old-fashioned mortgages into new-fangled securities was the desire to get money offshore.
(11) These new-fangled gizmos will be chuntering into life in football club offices all over the UK today.
(12) Last week it was suggested that in order to bring libraries into the modern era , visitors should be cossetted with new-fangled indulgences such as heating, toilets, WiFi and coffee machines.
(13) So one of her new-fangled “extreme disruption orders” will sort him out.
(14) It is always gobsmacking to hear a Tory use the phrase “class war” as if it were a bad thing – a nasty, old-fangled activity that has nothing to do with them, m’lud.
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.