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Examples of cheapjack
cheapjack
What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks.
From the time.com
The actor discovers both the comedy of Dr Marigold's cheapjack spieling, and the palpable warmth and generosity of his heart.
From the telegraph.co.uk
By good management and communal support El Nido has been preserved from the scourges of logging, dynamite fishing and cheapjack development.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Grizzly is too cheapjack to be a considerable success, but it also will not need much of a return at the box office to show a modest profit.
From the time.com
It means the brewery site will be put to better use than the cheapjack apartments that might have sprouted there as in other parts of Newmarket and the inner city.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- A peddler of inferior goods
- Cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
- A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a canvasser, cheapjack, monger, or solicitor (with negative connotations since the 16th century), is a travelling vendor of goods. ...
- A peddler; shabby
- A travelling salesman of low price household utensils.
