showy (but cheap or tasteless, or such an object) adj., n. gimcrack
On Tuesday the Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley will open a giant multiplex cinema at the Great NorthLeisure Park, just outside Finchley, north London. . . . To those who loathe the stench of fried food, hate the tinny beat of endless muzak, and deplore the gimcrack architecture topped with a grinning Daffy Duck, it is Absolutely Horrid. (Catherine Pepinster, “In England’sGreen and Multiplexed Land,” Independent on Sunday, 7/7/1996.)
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