Adjective: kitschy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | kitschier |
| Superlative | kitschiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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This is what his admirers go for: the gravelly grain of his film stock, the crowded monochrome of his compositions (the new film is mostly in black-and-white, with kitschy spasms of color), and the way in which light bounces and breathes from the faces of his players. [2004 May 10, The New Yorker:]
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Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977. [2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like kitschy
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From kitsch + -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”). See: German Adjectives '
kitschig'.