How to Use kitsch in a Sentence

kitsch

noun
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  • The restaurant is decorated with 1950s furniture and kitsch from old TV shows.
  • Hope and Doc’s home is heavy on the kitsch and vintage pieces.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The key with anything is to stay away from kitsch stuff.
    — Martha McCully, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • The thing about the Best Western is there’s something kitsch about it.
    — Hazlitt, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the decor is a bit over the top and tongue in cheek, even veering into kitsch.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Cold War is over and the loser’s artifacts are now pop kitsch.
    — Jonathan Bradley, Billboard, 5 July 2018
  • This is kitsch basic at its best, because the meat needs to do the talking.
    — Sorrel Moseley-Williams, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2018
  • The show is all about stylish nostalgia—not retro kitsch.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 4 May 2018
  • There's no stage, just some kitsch decor and a painting of burlesque dancer Lili St. Cyr that peers over the bar.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Embrace the witch kitsch of the 1990s with moons and stars, as well as touches of metallics and iridescence.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
  • That’s not to say there isn’t a hint of kitsch: The pass-through from the kitchen is built to look like the service window of the OG food truck, tires and all.
    — Daliah Singer, The Know, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Here are some options away from the wonderfulness and kitsch of the Strip.
    — Reid Tuvim, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Now, the model and beauty mogul has put her twist on kitsch Christmas style.
    — Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the left has glitter-gunned her into a kitsch icon.
    — Sara Benincasa, Longreads, 13 July 2018
  • There’s Wilson with brush in hand, hairdo pouffed to the heavens and channeling the kitsch icon to a tee.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Don’t let the kitsch put you off the extraordinary drinks here, though.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The decorations Just give in to the kitsch of the holiday season.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Not only was Ilse Koch gone by the time Semprún arrived in Buchenwald, but the scene is pure kitsch.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • For the rest of the year, you're invited to carry those off with a little kitsch—at least at nail-level.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Indeed, there is an element of retro kitsch to the entire park.
    — Larry Bleiberg, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • For all the fond evocation of time and place, kitsch and culture, this is a movie about dread — about the demons in the hills sharpening their knives.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
  • Adding just a touch of kitsch keeps things elevated but fun.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Ready to lay down a new floor piece that will showcase your fave little mouse without (too much) kitsch?
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The place is typical small-town bar kitsch, with dollar bills stuck to the ceiling and mounted elk and deer heads.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The walls were adorned with a motley assortment of cowboy kitsch and sketches of John Wayne.
    — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
  • There’s something to what Barmé says about the kitsch in Beidaihe.
    — Jane Perlez, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • There’s something to what Mr. Barmé says about the kitsch in Beidaihe.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The tension of trying to win a golf tournament is what sells the sport, not the bells and whistles that LIV has reduced to pure kitsch.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The movie, in its totally kitsch way, frames itself as a thriller, with the competition to create the Pop-Tart likened to the race to the moon shot or the Manhattan Project.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • The true difference, though, lies in the piece’s shift from commercialized kitsch to camp sincerity.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024

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