Trinketize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Trinketize is a verb meaning (transitive) To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
Meaning
(transitive) To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
Example Sentences
One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience.
Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.
For the tourist, Indianness is trinketized as turquoise jewelry or prayer circles strung with feathers and shells, suggesting something earthy, exotic, mysterious[…]
Word Forms
- trinketizes
- trinketizing
- trinketized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trivialize, trifle, trashify, detackify, bagatellize, adulterate.
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