Sentence examples for cheapjack from inspiring English sources

Mother's Day? It's cheapjack, commercialised, and there's something almost fascist about its insistence you pay homage on this day.

************************************* The book I most enjoyed reading this week was a reprint of Philip Allingham's vastly entertaining Cheapjack (1934), an account of its top-hatted and evening-suited author's career as a palmist in the travelling fairs of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

This great station has become a grim shambles of shameful, cheapjack alterations but the wave-form canopy of the new western concourse will be the most striking piece of British railway architecture since the marvellously crafted articulations of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw's Eurostar concourse at Waterloo in the 1990s.

These shifts are skillfully done, and Gondry's animations are endearingly cheapjack, but there is something willed and chronic in his need to flee, at every turn, into the wondrous.

This was his other secret life, and he grew to hate the bawdy intrusion of the new Germany, the stamping and shouting of uniformed students, the scarred, arrogant faces and their cheapjack answers.

Then, one summer, the cheapjack pays a first visit to Lark Rise, and offers the villagers an eggshell china tea service, hand-painted with roses.

The DNA of Thompson's adjectival lexicon is made up of the following, often in sequence: "vicious," "rancid," "savage," "fiendish," "filthy," "rotten," "demented," "treacherous," "heinous," "scurvy," "devious," "grisly," "hamwit," "filthy," "foetid," "cheapjack" and "hellish".

For every Bonnie and Clyde there are a dozen pug-nosed English gunmen — sharps and cheapjacks, hammerers and con men — called things like "Monkey" Benneyworth, Ronald "Buster" Edwards and "Mad Frankie" Fraser.