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: April 11, 2025
\KITCH\ noun
What It Means
Kitsch refers to something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often cheap or tacky. Kitsch also refers to a tacky or lowbrow quality or condition.
// The restaurant is decorated with 1950s furniture and kitsch from old TV shows.
// The critic opined that the movie, despite its lofty ambitions, at times descended into kitsch.
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