Adjective : using cheap-jack methods to evict tenants. From Dictionary.com.
Mushroom development had brought cheap-jack construction. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
The sooner these cheap-jack gerrymanders of British policy realise that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
"Why, Tommy, it makes you look like a common cheap-jack," said she. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
Midland, for Constance, was not a trading concern, but something between a cheap-jack and a circus. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Anyhow, he did not talk like a cheap-jack at a stall; but rather like a teacher in an infant school. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
But at least the cheap-jack does advertise his wares, whereas the don or dear-jack advertises nothing except himself. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
After our cheap-jack agents taken the irresistible offer of the receptionist and get back to their room, they fell into a treacle sleep. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
Some cheap-jack clubs provide them for the home team only, but most big clubs do both benches, which normally means 28 seats these days. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
This shop was kept by a sort of cheap-jack, of whom big and little boys could procure -- according to his prospectus -- boxes, stilts, tools. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Lambert] Reference
Meanwhile, the architects and contractors, lawyers and landlords, inspectors and bureaucrats responsible for building cheap-jack skyscrapers get off scott-free. From Wordnik.com. [Seattlest] Reference
There Dr. Marigold pattered his cheap-jack phrases; and Mrs. Gamp and Betsy Prig, with throats rendered husky by much gin, had their memorable quarrel; and Sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens] Reference
Then that jolly old Sir Walter Cholmondeliegh got introduced to us, and this fellow, with his cheap-jack wit, began to score off the old man in the way he does now. From Wordnik.com. [The Club of Queer Trades] Reference
Bernard Shaw is a great cheap-jack, with plenty of patter and I dare say plenty of nonsense, but with this also (which is not wholly unimportant), with goods to sell. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
"I suppose," he had conceded grudgingly, "we must have a brat to carry swords and cloaks for us, or we'll be taken for some o 'your cheap-jack hucksters parading latest fashions," and he bade our host of the Star and. From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
Erica listened with no little amusement to his fervid appeals to the people not to lose this golden opportunity, and to the shy responses of the small crowd which had been attracted and which lingered on, tempted yet cautious, until the cheap-jack had worked himself up into. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
The narrow streets which had been thronged with people were now almost deserted; the cheap-jack from London, with the remnant of breath left him after his evening's exertions, was making feeble attempts to blow out his naphtha lamp, and the last shops open were rapidly closing for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Light Freights] Reference
A crowd surrounding a cheap-jack whose vociferations he drowned in a roll of thunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
A cheap-jack had set up his stall and, with flaring naptha lamps to show his goods, was selling by auction the most wonderful clocks at the very lowest prices in fact, the most superior glass, china, clothing, and furniture that the people of Firdale had ever had the privilege of seeing. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
(Some fans are under the deluded impression that the cheap-jack miniseries is more faithful to Herbert, even though it eviscerates the entire first 1/3 of the book and misinterprets all of the major characters. From Wordnik.com. [High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News] Reference
Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Suppose you screeve, or go cheap-jack?. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
He suggested an auctioneer or a cheap-jack!. From Wordnik.com. [The Elect Lady] Reference
"Shut up, cheap-jack!" cried Trimble defiantly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
No! Thic cheap-jack. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
"What cheap-jack?". From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
"cheap-jack" (Merriam-Webster). From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
These cheap-jack calendar-maker's gypsy tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Watchers of the Sky] Reference
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