cheap-jack

• “Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.””

  Prunings XXVII

• “Mushroom development had brought cheap-jack construction.”

  Newsweek: What Went Wrong

• “Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things.”

  Mary Anerley

• “The sooner these cheap-jack gerrymanders of British policy realise that the”

  The Silver Spoon

• “His ponderous declaration: “I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy,” was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his”

  Balzac

• “His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_.”

  Balzac

• “But that old clown Circumstance was piping in the market-place, shewing his cheap-jack wares to catch the fancies of the maidens, and my sweetheart, caught in the excitement of the moment, presently paid down for one of his flashy baubles no less a price than her own young heart.”

  Drolls From Shadowland

• “The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways.”

  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

• “His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his Comedie Humaine.”

  Balzac

• “The nightmare of modern cheap-jack life was all explained; unjustified, of course, as he had always dimly felt, symptom of deep disorder; all due, this feverish, external business, to an odd misunderstanding with the Earth.”

  The Centaur

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