Kitsch refers to art or cultural items characterized by sentimental, often pretentious bad taste, or a degraded state of culture.
Kitsch describes art or objects that are considered sentimental, tacky, or in bad taste, or a culture characterized by such sentimentality and vulgarity.
| Front | kitsch \kich\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Art or artwork characterized by sentimental, often pretentious bad taste. The mentality in which such art is conceived or appreciated. 2. Culture or civilization in a degraded state of sentimentality and vulgarity. adjective Relating to or characterized by kitsch. [German, probably of dialectal origin.] "Survivors were naturally eager to forget the grimness, and she suggests that they were helped in this by kitsch war poetry and by heroic military films." - Hearing silence; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 28, 2000. |
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