Translations for „gimcrack“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

gimcrack N (jewellery & gems)

gimcrack

حِلْيَةٌ تافِهَة

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English

Hiding in full sight, if you like; it's as though they believed those gimcrack ads about invisible capes in the back of the old-school comics.

www.independent.co.uk

Digital gimcracks may be seductive.

www.thestar.com

Why do so many of the works on display feel derivative, shop-soiled, gimcrack and above all dull?

www.telegraph.co.uk

They are, however, scandalized by rank hypocrisy from mouthy journalists and gimcrack municipal politicians, and by the confected and inflated sanctimony of prigs and twits.

news.nationalpost.com

But in typical gimcrack style, such prudence was patchy.

www.smh.com.au

Heroines, of a gimcrack kind.

www.smh.com.au