How to Use gimmickry in a Sentence

gimmickry

noun

• The risk for Biden is that the budget ploy is likely to prompt complaints of gimmickry.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• The dishes do not show off, or gesture in the direction of gimmickry.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 15 Aug. 2017
• As arena rock shows go, this one was a doozie, but not because of stage gimmickry or a stunning light show.
  — Max Londberg and Timothy Finn, kansascity.com, 12 June 2017
• But end-of-game gimmickry isn’t the most pressing concern for Bruce Cassidy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• It’s one of the reasons why the Navy wants to install a pricey combat system and other unwieldy gee-whiz gimmickry on the LAW.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• In the hands of lesser chefs, these shenanigans would come off as pure gimmickry, and there are times during a meal at the Cube when all the playfulness falls flat.
  — Besha Rodell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• Handing him a uniform was sure to elicit criticism for gimmickry — the flip-side of a Tim Tebow signing, as Miller puts it.
  — Mike Tierney, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• LG’s new flagship phone, the G6, is beautiful but stripped bare of the gimmickry that was a hallmark of its predecessors.
  — Nathan Olivarez-Giles, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2017
• The gimmickry merely seemed sad a few years ago: a charcoal bun on my lobster roll at Hinoki & the Bird, a charcoal waffle with my duck at ink.
  — Joel Stein, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
• His verses were punctuated with growls and barks, yet his art was far too earnest for these elements to scan as gimmickry.
  — David Drake, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
• The privilege of strolling amid such gimmickry will cost you dearly — $25, in a city heaving with museums that cost nothing.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• In the final analysis, the story of Season 6 seems to be the show fell a little too in love with gimmickry — see also Glenn’s Dumpster dive, of course, and the Daryl shooting — and viewers got fed up.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2016
• This would all be standard issue rappin’ granny gimmickry if Norman and Patrick didn’t have bars, but every line is more surprising than the last.
  — Vulture, 22 Sep. 2022
• But to go beyond gimmickry, a show like this also needs a story amenable — in fact, designed — for such an experience.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2017
• If his tactics sound like gimmickry, Mr. Daly disagrees.
  — Christina Rexrode, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• There's a fine line between gimmickry and innovation, of course.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
• The whiskey world can be susceptible to fads and hype—indeed, a certain degree of gimmickry is to be expected in a market as crowded as this one.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2022
• So yeah, like VanMoof, Cowboy e-bikes are high-tech proprietary computers-on-wheels with a feature set that can, at times, verge on gimmickry.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 21 July 2023
• For decades, though, these institutions had reaped hefty fees from the city and become complicit in what amounted to its fiscal gimmickry leading up to the crisis.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 4 May 2022
• But, of course, modernism itself remained open to charges of gimmickry, and not only from reactionaries.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Permanent tax cuts are probably still out of the GOP’s reach, regardless of their budgetary gimmickry.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Aug. 2017
• This is a fine balance; a novelty symbol may too often tip over into gimmickry.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2021
• There is a layer of gimmickry to the C-HR, but beneath its tattooed attitude, is the foundation for very cool applications.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Others regarded them as Rembrandt might a paint-by-numbers kit: gimmickry that gets in the way of learning technique and that might foster dependence.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• His great strength as a critic was his pragmatism, his commitment to assess the performance in front of him on its own terms while casting a skeptical eye at gimmickry.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• But over the past two seasons — and its wildly popular second life on Netflix — the show’s cult appeal has proved deeper than its digital gimmickry.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2016
• From such duplicitous beginnings, the idea of gimmickry soon spread.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• This gimmickry hides the true cost, which the Congressional Budget Office says is $4.7 trillion, not the $2.4 trillion advertised, with the difference added to the national debt.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• But then my director hat pops on and asks — would the audience find that technical gimmickry distracting?
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
• And Hanks, who’s made unvarnished, down-to-earth honesty something of a career specialty, feels uniquely ill served by such gimmickry.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024