n.
- 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).
- An example or examples of kitsch.
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.]
kitschify kitsch'i·fy' v.kitschy kitsch'y adj.
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