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It can be used to describe something that is cheap, showy, or of little value, often in a derogatory sense. Example: "The store was filled with gimcrack souvenirs that appealed to tourists but lacked any real quality." Alternatives include "trinket" or "knickknack."
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gimcrack
adjective
Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
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But the scars of the Soviet era, and the gaudy gimcrack results of 20 years of crony capitalism, are visible too.
His other titles were more minor.The Nazis sought his help, hoping for some stardust from a real ex-empire to give lustre to their gimcrack one.
But whatever the reason, it behoves those unwilling to wait for websites to get their acts together to consider the alternatives to traditional passwords.Skysail dactyl gimcrack golemOne such is multi-word passwords called passphrases.
It consists of little more than a dirt road and a handful of gimcrack concrete buildings—home in "normal" times to about 1,500 people whose main income (on paper, at least) comes from welfare payments of about $20 a month.
"Elevate!" they barked, while the Doctor ran for his life.For all their gimcrack genesis Daleks were and are—no joke.
Despite the low actual value of most requested items, the corresponding lack of cost offers arbitrage opportunities.Babbage may have been asked a few days ago for gimcrack goods, but last year Sergey's doppelgänger raised the stakes.
Amateur theologians, bent on bypassing the professionals, can come to enlightened conclusions or appalling ones, such as the gimcrack theology used to justify acts of mega-terror by al-Qaeda or Islamic State.
In 1844 John C. Stevens founded the New York Yacht Club aboard his schooner Gimcrack.
Almost everything seemed gimcrack, just off the skip, pressed into service against its will, unhappily reliving its own wailingly posthumous life.
Wall Street's argument is that those who took out patently gimcrack mortgages bought the subprime narrative, in which a home wasn't a primary residence but a primary investment.
Now, just as Mr. Farquhar's house was gone, replaced by a gimcrack sort of castle that was the weekend home of some people from Toronto, the old Meadowlake was gone, though it had dated only from the fifties.
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