Words similar to kitsch

Example sentences for: kitsch

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You cannot get to know this country properly, even if you don’t want to buy anything, without exploring the rich and varied range of traditional arts and crafts, the famous cornucopia of electronic gadgets and precision instruments, or the impressively awful selection of kitsch souvenirs in the major tourist centers.
Then they all freeze perfectly still for, like, a minute, as the music swells and we are presented with a shockingly good recreation of a kitsch Nativity painting.
With Tarzan monopolizing the highest and lowest rungs of the Chain of Being, the "natives" find themselves deprived of the one asset that racist mythology attributed to them, closeness to the animals, leaving them without any particular function in the economy of kitsch literature, except to be rescued by Tarzan from rogue elephants and the occasional witch doctor.
I am uncertain about the extent to which public funds should be used to fund art--whether that art be kitsch or politically controversial statements.
Thanks to Regis, it is the perfect '90s experience: You can enjoy it as challenge, kitsch, or both.