Today's Word "Kitsch"
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kitsch \kich\ (noun) - Art or decoration exemplifying taste both pretentious and bad. More broadly, anything that appeals to a popular, vulgar sensibility.
"Mina wasn't in a mood for high-brow culture, so she settled for a weekend of kitsch at the local craft fair."
German dialectal kitsch "trash, knickknack, shoddiness" of unknown origin. "Kitsch" can also be an adjective, rendering "kitschy" redundant. "Kitschify" is the facetiously contrived verb which, unfortunately, begs "kitschification," "kitschifiable," and so on.
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