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Gimcrack
Definition:
(n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On our maritime borders, armed servicemen have repeatedly coerced refugees onto gimcrack lifeboats and pushed them out to sea.
(2) Fortunately, once the implications have sunk in, Emmott expects take-up for such a gimcrack scheme to be low among both employees and firms that take management seriously – a joke rather than a serious danger.
(3) Niko's real pathos derives not from the gimcrack story but how he looks and moves.
(4) More thoroughgoing restorers might despise the gimcrack painted floorboards in the long gallery (they can still be detected by the attentive eye today), but his creation in the Suffolk countryside was sensational in its day and was a forerunner of many such conversions.
(5) That gimcrack organisation's UN spokesman said that it wants to organise Gaddafi's trial, but it is plainly unable to secure an unbiased legal process when he does fall into its hands.
(6) I fear the user interfaces will be labyrinths of glistering advertising, festooned with social-media gimcracks, and that the focus of these corporations is dangerously diluted away from producing surprising, novel, fun games.