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Etymology

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trinket +‎ -like

Adjective

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trinketlike (comparative more trinketlike, superlative most trinketlike)

  1. Like a trinket; cheap and showy.
    • 2008 February 22, Karen Rosenberg, “Cheeky Hipsters in the Halls of Victorian Brigadiers”, in New York Times[1]:
      At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures — composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs — look more trinketlike than transcendent.