gimcracky

It was demolished for a spanking new facility that improved on the old one in every possible way – light and spacious instead of gloomy and cavernous, modern instead of archaic with gimcracky sixties overlays.

Wednesday, March 17 – The Bleat. 2010

All leftover space is filled with gimcracky figurines and framed crosstitch samplers yellowed with time or cigarette smoke.

The Spirit Upwelling 2009

Just lemme take a peek at that lock , he told himself, crossing the blacktop at a crouch as if that would do any good were someone watching and hefting the gimcracky dimestore padlock securing the gate in the outer fence.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Just lemme take a peek at that lock , he told himself, crossing the blacktop at a crouch as if that would do any good were someone watching and hefting the gimcracky dimestore padlock securing the gate in the outer fence.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Just lemme take a peek at that lock , he told himself, crossing the blacktop at a crouch as if that would do any good were someone watching and hefting the gimcracky dimestore padlock securing the gate in the outer fence.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

She was lightly playing around with ideas about how she'd found a home and a protector, knowing she was kidding herself, that it was the most gimcracky feminine make-believe, but enjoying it just the same.

The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

Tommy says she doesn't want footling little gimcracky tables and whatnots and things, nor dressing-tables full of drawers that won't pull out.

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

Bulwer-Lytton he thought a consummate novel-writer, but "his was by no means a perfect nature" -- "a strange mixture of what is really romantic and interesting with what is tawdry and gimcracky."

Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

'Well, we must lay him across my shandry, it's more roomy than his gimcracky gig.

Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century Emma Marshall 1864

Bulwer-Lytton he thought a consummate novel-writer, but “his was by no means a perfect nature” ” “a strange mixture of what is really romantic and interesting with what is tawdry and gimcracky.”

Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904