cheapjack

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Return of the Living Dead, no matter how cheapjack it looks to me these days, is still the most depressing and disturbing horror film I've ever seen.

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  1. noun A peddler or dealer of cheap goods.
  2. adjective Inferior in quality or value; tawdry: "cheapjack moviemaking . . . that feeds on the low taste of the mob” (Judith Crist).

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  • And his party found success swapping its pro-trade stance of the mid-'90s for cheapjack "Buy America" bullshit in the late aughts. —  Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
  • While the faults of the privatised cheapjack home carers are now painfully understood, the over-drugging and soft abuse of the elderly in residential homes is widespread. —  Paul Flynn - Read My Day
  • His was becoming in many respects a cheapjack country. —  Mises Dailies
  • Return of the Living Dead, no matter how cheapjack it looks to me these days, is still the most depressing and disturbing horror film I've ever seen. —  Armagideon Time
  • Salted throughout the vast bureaucracy are dozens of little homeschooled land mines, the products of a dozen cheapjack diploma mills selling patent-medicine history to the spiritually gullible. —  Jack & Jill Politics
 

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