(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.
Ornament
Definition:
(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.