The word "gewgaw" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun meaning an object of little value or use. You can use it when referring to a worthless trinket or bauble. Example sentence: His mother gave him a gewgaw for his birthday, and he was not very impressed.
Those employers should note that for a growing number of these workers the most appealing gewgaw of all is the freedom to work as and when they please.
And if you or I asked to do what L.V.M.H. wants to, we'd be told, 'Sorry, sir, it's forbidden.' " One almost has the sense that Gady would be content to see La Samaritaine remain shuttered — sooner, at least, than see it become one more glittering gewgaw in the doll's house.
Peering closer at a teetering sculpture made from a chair base, model airplane fuselages, a drawer and a model train station, a reporter tripped over a gewgaw at its base.
Not a single gewgaw hangs off it.
David and Chris's late father worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and wouldn't you know there's a weird gewgaw in the basement with some crazy-looking blueprints.
Still, it's hard not to think that the only bearable person in this animated world is Sid's grandmother, who points out to him that she never needed to be bribed with the promise of a new gewgaw to do her chores.
Certainly, it overshadows the somewhat indulgent — and, now and then, plain silly — sculptural creations of his later years, such as the gewgaw-elaborated bronze "Little Girl Jumping Rope" (1950).
To some 18th-century observers, working in the fields was inherently more noble than making gewgaws.But though growth in areas of the economy that are not easily automated provides jobs, it does not necessarily help real wages.
But, whereas early personal computers allowed users to run spreadsheets, do word-processing, build databases and learn to program, today's personal 3D printers are good for little more than making plastic trinkets and gewgaws.
But the profit margin for producing these gewgaws is very small.
Visually, Frieze saw more large-scale works and fewer gewgaws for one's pied-a-terre.
