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something that is of low quality but that many people find amusing and enjoyable
The restaurant is decorated with 1950s furniture and kitsch from old TV shows.
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Recent Examples of kitsch
Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
More often, everyone involved is invested in keeping the fantasy of fluff and kitsch afloat while obscuring the opportunity for any legitimately frictive interaction; viewers are left to fill in the gaps on their own.
—Aisha Harris, NPR, 13 July 2025
Their style saps all the kitsch from beachy design and leaves just the parts that feel traveled, artisanal, and sophisticated but grounded.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2025
With his camp sensibility [Puig] pinpoints so accurately the kitsch euphemisms, the everyday language of evasion.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
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Adjective
The North Hollywood house, which songwriter Allee Willis first purchased in 1980 and turned into a living ode to all things kitsch, is awash in trinkets and tchotchkes.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
More often, everyone involved is invested in keeping the fantasy of fluff and kitsch afloat while obscuring the opportunity for any legitimately frictive interaction; viewers are left to fill in the gaps on their own.
—Aisha Harris, NPR, 13 July 2025
Their style saps all the kitsch from beachy design and leaves just the parts that feel traveled, artisanal, and sophisticated but grounded.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2025
With his camp sensibility [Puig] pinpoints so accurately the kitsch euphemisms, the everyday language of evasion.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitsch
Noun
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Skip the tuna tartare tacos and choose the cheese: The beets make it.—
Constance Ogle,
Miami Herald,
1 Aug. 2025
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For a lighter, summer twist on the classic, Seeger also recommends swapping noodles for eggplant and adding Fontina cheese.—
Colleen McNally Arnett,
Southern Living,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Now available at Walmart in five craveable flavors, each can delivers the nostalgic taste of your favorite fizzy drink, without any of the junk.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 July 2025
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Clear your yard of any brush, rocks, junk, firewood, and pet food that might attract rodents.—
Rob Williams,
EverydayHealth.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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While a Daiquiri is snappy, the Daisy de Santiago is garish.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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Here, as elsewhere, the president is taking an existing elite failing to its garish extreme.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
Noun
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North Korea has responded to previous balloon campaigns with fiery rhetoric and other shows of anger, and last year the country launched its own balloons across the border, dumping rubbish on various South Korean sites, including the presidential compound.—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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They were were found beneath a pile of rubbish heaped just inside her front door, according to a police report released Wednesday.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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At the time, unnatural hair color was considered gaudy, a threat to the beloved ingenue aesthetic boasted by female stars such as Audrey Hepburn.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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But Oklahoma City engulfs basketball’s gaudiest attacks not in spite of its hacking but because of it.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Noun
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According to the probable cause affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE in January 2023, authorities identified him after matching DNA on trash taken from Bryan's parents' home to that of the sheath of the knife used in the stabbings that was left at the crime scene.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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Perry spent 16 years in the family business, HQ Dumpsters and Recycling, before it was sold last year to trash hauler CWPM in Plainville.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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After everything else the bawdy, tawdry, and perfectly ludicrous The Hunting Wives serves up in its first season, the series’s final act is an embarrassment of riches.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 July 2025
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Then there’s the cup holder cover, a small detail, which is tawdry and lets the expensive-feeling cabin down a bit.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Those mattresses will be returned to the rental company at the end of training camp.—
Jesse Newell,
Kansas City Star,
29 July 2025
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At Tuesday’s sixth practice of training camp, the first one where players were thumping in pads, Robinson wore the orange jersey, spotlighting him as the practice player of the day.—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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“Kitsch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitsch. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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