flashy vs gimcrack

flashy

adj
  • Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing. 

gimcrack

adj
  • Showy but of poor quality; worthless. 

noun
  • Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick. 

verb
  • To embellish with gimcracks. 

  • To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge. 

How often have the words flashy and gimcrack occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )