cheapjack

How To Use cheapjack In A Sentence

• I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow. The Silent Tower
• It was a cheapjack company that paid writers and artists at rates ranging from poor to involuntary servitude, then printed their wares on presses that were outmoded.
• This book will make the reader proud of the best elements of contemporary culture -- not always an easy feat to accomplish, in the face of the more lurid and cheapjack portions of modern life. Asimov's Science Fiction
• Even with the 1996 TV movie to pave the way, it was still somewhat jarring to see 'Doctor Who' entirely filmed and not on cheapjack videotape. O'BSERVATIONS: "ROSE"
• But if Eason Jordan, the BBC and Katie Couric don't mention it, perhaps it doesn't need to be considered when cheapjack political point-scoring is a primary objective. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• But stick with the cheapjack chin-puller smarm posing as serious commentary, Alex. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
• The director decided to take ‘the opportunity to beat his cheapjack imitators at their own game’.
• A cheapjack calling himself Dr Marigold took pity on this deaf and dumb child who resembled his daughter who had died.
• Walking down a back alley I cam across this cheapjack apartment. Boyle Heights
• And so, you find the bizarreness of a funeral being transformed into a cheapjack political rally - and none of the participants realizing how utterly ghastly that looks to normal people.