trinketize

present singular third person trinketizes · participle present trinketizing · participle past trinketized · past trinketized

1. transitiveTo reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.

   One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience.

   2002, William E. Leuchtenburg, American Places: Encounters With History, page 63

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   Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.

   1995, M. Joseph Sirgy, A. Coskun Samli, New Dimensions in Marketing/Quality-Of-Life Research, page 306

   For the tourist, Indianness is trinketized as turquoise jewelry or prayer circles strung with feathers and shells, suggesting something earthy, exotic, mysterious[…]

   2005, Virginia Tilley, Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation, And Power in El Salvador, page 46