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kitsch

[kich]

noun

  1. something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.



kitsch

/ ɪʃ /

noun

    1. tawdry, vulgarized, or pretentious art, literature, etc, usually with popular or sentimental appeal

    2. ( as modifier )

      a kitsch plaster bust of Beethoven

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

kitsch

  1. Works of art and other objects (such as furniture) that are meant to look costly but actually are in poor taste.

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Kitsch in literature and music is associated with sentimentalism as well as bad taste.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • kitschy adjective
  • ˈ쾱ٲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of kitsch1

First recorded in 1925–30; from German, derivative of kitschen “to throw together (a work of art)”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of kitsch1

C20: from German
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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.

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It’s so ornate, so frothy with kitsch, you have to smile.

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There’s attention to detail and kitsch in everything here.

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Life, death, crime, kitsch, nostalgia, immigrant aspirations and witty design — all of these elements converge in the world of motels, which didn’t exist before 1925.

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But in “Our Little Secret,” Lohan thankfully isn’t beholden to any of the kitsch that plagued her prior Netflix movies.

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