gimcrack

Plural: gimcracks

Noun

• A cheap, showy, or worthless trinket; a gewgaw.
• ornamental objects of no great value
• Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.

Adjective Satellite

• tastelessly showy

Adj

• Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

Verb

• To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
• To embellish with gimcracks.

Examples

• His attempt at a fancy word was a GIMCRACK; it scored low and opened nothing in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

brassy, cheap, falderol, flash, flashy, folderal, frill, garish, gaudy, gimcrackery, loud, meretricious, nonsense, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, trumpery

Anagrams of gimcrack