kitschy
adj/ˈkɪt͡ʃi/
Etymology From kitsch + -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”).
1
Having the nature of kitsch: excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- kitschily, kitschiness, unkitschy