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Kitsch is a style of mass-produced art or design using cultural icons. The term is generally reserved for unsubstantial or gaudy works, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal.

Slang:
tasteless, lowbrow, tacky.
a tacky or lowbrow quality or condition.

Technically, Kitsch is a term that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term "kitschy" is also used more loosely in referring to any art/thing/or person that is pretentious or in bad taste, and also commercially produced items that are considered trite or crass.
As a child, I considered my mother's ornaments a bit kitschy, but when I took them to the Antiques Road show I discovered that they were valuable.
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kitschy by razzell2a September 3, 2013
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Buying your grandma a 50 inch double-ended leopard/cow print vibrating dildo is EXTREMELY kitschy.
kitschy by Christian September 21, 2003

Kitschy

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A female Human pilot in the MMO game 'Pardus'.
Kitschy is a destroyer of worlds. Also, she is a force to be reckoned with in the world of smack talking.
Kitschy also cannot spell and often gets moronically drunk.
Kitschy destroyed Bobo.
Kitschy by KitschyPardus January 27, 2009

Kitschedelia 

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Music categorized as kitschedelia often employs overtly cheesy, tacky, or low brow humor in combination with the experimentation and perception altering characteristics of psychedelic music. The effect of kitschedelia is often meant to confound and challenge the listener and can be heavily conceptual. The genre also has roots in plunderphonics and culture jamming.
Much of the output of The Residents could fall into the category of kitschedelia due to the group's hallucinatory deconstruction of commercial and popular music.
Kitschedelia by Keith Courage December 22, 2017

Soviet Kitsch 

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The third album made by Soviet born singer Regina Spektor, now living and performing in the U.S.
- Have you listened to the new Regina's Album - Soviet Kitsch?
- New? It was released in 2004, dude!
Soviet Kitsch by ilya-42 October 18, 2008

kitsch 

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As an art movement, lifestyle, or literature and film genre, kitsch is pleasingly distasteful. It's melodramatic, overdone, gaudy and tacky or sentimental and folksy. It's so bad that it's cool. Your cat might attack it, but it's hot.
And, no, Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer are NOT bad enough to be kitsch. At all. Paris and Nicole though...
You're looking rather kitschy today, your grandma's neckace is hot.
I saw an awesome Andy Warhol knockoff at the galley yesterday, it was so kitsch. I couldn't get it though, I didn't have the cash. *sounds dissappointed*
kitsch by Avant-Garde Hero August 15, 2004
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