trinketize

trinketize

English

Etymology

trinket +‎ -ize

Verb

trinketize (third-person singular simple present trinketizes, present participle trinketizing, simple past and past participle trinketized)

1. (transitive) To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
   • 1995, M. Joseph Sirgy, A. Coskun Samli, New Dimensions in Marketing/Quality-Of-Life Research (page 306)

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

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

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

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

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