gimcracking

Verb

gimcrack (third-person singular simple present gimcracks, present participle gimcracking, simple past and past participle gimcracked)

1. (transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
   • Actually the book is a series of related images (some fresh and sharp) and fragmentary sketches (a few vividly effective), gimcracked together with a semblance of plot and allegory,1950, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 122, page 20
2. (transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.
   • Furthermore many of the peripheral characters and myths that the Disney interests have appropriated over the years have been gimcracked to death, so that they have none of their original integrity .1976, James William Johnson, Prose in Practice: A Rhetorical Reader, page 100

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