Definitions
Etymologies
- kitsch + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Today, Liberace's name elicits smirks from many of those who recall the kitschy pianist from TV shows of their youth.”
The Wall Street Journal: Can Liberace's Legacy Stay in Vegas?
“Mr. ROTELLA: ... and so many other songs that came after that were kind of kitschy but really pop and really kind of fun.”
“Were President Obama to overreach for that kind of kitschy sudz-n-ammo symbolism in 2010, it would only make things worse for the himself and the Democrats.”
“He also adds that "there's a certain thing that you can't really hold onto, which is … there's a kind of kitschy quality that must go if it's going to be something that you believe is real.”
J.J. Abrams Delivers a Mid-Summer Star Trek Update « FirstShowing.net
“And let's ask this pertinent question: What "kitschy" qualities does he feel Star Trek has?”
J.J. Abrams Delivers a Mid-Summer Star Trek Update « FirstShowing.net
“So, again, what about Star Trek is Jar Jar saying is 'kitschy'?”
J.J. Abrams Delivers a Mid-Summer Star Trek Update « FirstShowing.net
“(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.)”
Joy Preble: Not Lost at All: Texas Pines, Debut Authors, and the World's Largest Gingerbread Man
“So to see Ron Moore, God himself in the Battlestar Galactica universe, standing there reading a magazine at the end, was exactly the kind of kitschy too-clever winking-at-the-audience bullshit that the show had so studiously avoided all along.”
“As part of my job, I work with the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway organization that works to preserve the "kitschy" nature and the history behind the Mother Road.”
“The interior is consciously constructed as a kind of kitschy space-age experience, with low stools and lava lamps.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kitschy’.
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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micellaneous
hinky, heath, peat, cicatrix, lark, chateau, gapeseed, obstreperous, mixen, addax, syllogism, colligate and 100 more...
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Least Favorite Words
blog, painterly, choicest, evildoer, perpetrator, murmur, gab, schmooze, macerate, feeble, lusty, boobs and 72 more...
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foolishbrat's Words
yarn, savor, blakean, kitschy, gift, bland, the rabbit died, eucatastrophe, mythopoeia, cherchez la femme, chthonic, hyacinth and 16 more...
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Least Favorites
choicest, sassafras, vomit, amorous, testes, agrarian, egregious, lactate, pus, crotchety, cul-de-sac, precipice and 74 more...
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Satan's Gramophone
dank, blouse, poetess, squab, moist, sphincter, roughage, purse, blab, sepulchral, flesh, thigh and 58 more...
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found in blogs
from john latta's isola di rifiuti ... nick piombino's fait accompli ... suzanne's suzannagig jig ... the communal as/is ... k. silem mohammad's lime tree ... joseph duemer's sharp sand ... paula's...
miscible, jejune, barmy, offal, scurrilous, careen, grimace, marinated, petulance, desuetude, dictum, ensorcelled and 27 more...
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Random Words
perspicacious, vamoose, honky tonk, kafkaesque, pugnacious, befuddled, depants, nympholepsy, eviscerate, vituperation, sagacity, kitschy and 2 more...
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molotov
chiaroscuro, sitzbank, cigarette, balcony, sláinte, alfresco, *punch*, grin, babble, molotov, c'mere, kitschy and 57 more...
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mmciz's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kitschy.

brtom The trees are wretched splinter-sculptures and the strip malls are alive with kitschy holiday heraldry.
K. Silem Mohammad, lime tree Dec 21, 2006