schlockmeister
nounEtymology From schlock + -meister, originally “seller of inferior goods”.
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Canada, US, Derogatory, Slang A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.
- Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women—so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes.2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- Hearing Mamet call Spielberg a pretentious schlockmeister was even more shocking to the alderman—to all the aldermen present, in fact, and to Daley, too—than hearing him say he hadn't seen Private Ryan.2022, Adam Levin, Mount Chicago, Doubleday, →ISBN: