cheap-jack
Americannoun
adjective
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of or suitable for a cheap-jack; cheap or inferior.
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without scruples or principles; underhanded.
using cheap-jack methods to evict tenants.
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cheap-jack
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Then again, it might be another cheap-jack moment waiting to take you down.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2012
The object of Stendhal's satire is the cheap-jack kingery of Louis Philippe�that "crowned calculating machine"�and the belowstairs thimblerigging of the corrupt, bureaucrazed regime through which he misgoverned France.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap-jack row of shops devoted to "bijouterie and parfumerie."
From Time Magazine Archive
The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means
But at least the cheap-jack does advertise his wares, whereas the don or dear-jack advertises nothing except himself.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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