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gimcrack🔊

Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.

💬 Quotations
[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.

To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.

To embellish with gimcracks.