kitsch (k ch)n. 1. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass). 2. An example or examples of kitsch. adj. Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: "The kitsch kitchen ... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motif" (Suzanne Cassidy). [German, probably of dialectal origin.] kitsch  i·fy v.kitsch y adj. |
kitsch
Noun
tawdry or sentimental art or literature [from German]
kitschy adj
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