Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch"(William H. Gass).
An example or examples of kitsch.
adj. Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: "The kitsch kitchen ... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motif"(Suzanne Cassidy).
[German, probably of dialectal origin.] kitsch'i·fy' v., kitsch'y adj.
(kĭch) 