cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Walking down a back alley I cam across this cheapjack apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Boyle Heights] Reference
But stick with the cheapjack chin-puller smarm posing as serious commentary, Alex. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
If this weren't such a cheapjack line, there'd be at least three other entertainers and a second band. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of a Deathtime]
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. From Wordnik.com. [O'BSERVATIONS: "ROSE"] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
We have a second skirmish prepared, in which, once again, you can listen and choose between two related Fab Four deception records tooled to cash in on that whole British Invasion "fad," this time released on the cheapjack Diplomat label. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
His was becoming in many respects a cheapjack country. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
Suddenly I recognized the trick of that Arab cheapjack. From Wordnik.com. [Old Junk] Reference
Yet honestly, half my fellows might easily serve as models to any literary cheapjack of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Steps] Reference
If we're liberal, we blame the cheapjack high-rise architecture and the way it concentrates poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The rewards of the literary world -- that is, the tangible, potable, spendable rewards -- go mostly to the cheapjack and the mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Armagideon Time] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Jack & Jill Politics] Reference
Donald Baverstock, controller of television, complained that while TW3's writers were so robustly attacking other people's behaviour and beliefs, they had only "muddled standards and cheapjack values". From Wordnik.com. [Adrian Monck] Reference
Because the public likes to be persuaded by the clamour of cheapjack advertisement that its inside wants certain medicines, and that these medicines are worth buying at a price that makes the vendor a millionaire, there he is with his million. From Wordnik.com. [International Finance] Reference
"No way would some cheapjack landlord put in a stairway this wide or this solid. From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
 Orson barely escapes as Wendell drags him off the edge of the roof, and they escape on a cheapjack hang-glider assembly strapped to Wendell’s back. From Wordnik.com. [Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall And The Green Mist Of Death | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
Thus Rod Liddle (who presumably wouldn’t want his servants reading Wetlands) fulminates against dim feminist critics who interpret the ramblings of “cheapjack book sluts” as serious art. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful of the Wetlands?] Reference
He thought how they would pride themselves upon the latest contrivance for speeding their inert bodies from one point to another "annihilating distance"; upon being able to get from suburbia to the huge shops that created artificial wants, then filled them; from the pokey villas with their wee sham gardens to the dingy offices; from dark airless East End rooms to countless factories that pour out semifraudulent, unnecessary wares upon the world, explosives and weapons to destroy another nation, or cheapjack goods to poison their own -- all in a few minutes less than they could do it the week before. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
'' scurvy, "" devious, "" grisly, "" hamwit, "" filthy, "" foetid, "" cheapjack "and" hellish. ". From Wordnik.com. [BlueOregon] Reference
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