Translations for „gimcrack“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

gimcrack [ˈdʒɪmkræk] ADJ (ideas)

gimcrack

никчёмный

gimcrack architecture

глиноби́тный

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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

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

www.telegraph.co.uk

Heroines, of a gimcrack kind.

www.smh.com.au

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

Digital gimcracks may be seductive.

www.thestar.com