Get Free Checker
[ UK /ʃlˈɒk/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɫɑk/ ]
NOUN
  1. merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

How To Use schlock In A Sentence

  • At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
  • Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
  • In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
  • Instead of Bauhaus residences in the suburbs, we got ersatz-traditional schlock.
  • It both underplays and overplays the melodrama of the scene at once, capturing something real and raw in what might've been a stock bit of overemoting schlock. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Everything on display here is grade-Z kung-fu schlock.
  • But our dear Soviet literary schlock is not that innocent: it represents either the militant propaganda of antihumanism, or a senseless waste of material resources, energy, and labor. A Satisfied Author
  • So you can't really go in there and say, ‘Here, I'm going to make some real schlock.’
  • House on Haunted Hill is a remake of a 1959 Vincent Price movie directed by schlockmeister William Castle.
  • Too busy turning into a nocturnal beast to watch this Victorian schlocker? The Wolfman: Del Toro and Hopkins sink their teeth into each other
View all