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Sentence Examples
They treated us like a tin-pot banana republic instead of a sovereign country.
I can imagine the tin-pot leaders of some of the dodgier African nations rubbing their hands in expectation of this newly announced hand-out.
For decades, stories of red mercury have conjured a lethal substance whose near-magical properties might quickly turn a terrorist or tin-pot dictator into a mini-superpower.
Examples from Classical Literature
I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
Being New Year's Eve the usual attempt at a tin-pot band was made to make the night hideous.
Mary was preparing the dried meat, which she intended to boil along with the locust-beans in our tin-pot.
It isn't a lively look-out to live in a tin-pot house here, and come home to find the mater fretting over her lost splendours.
I was about to lead him aft, but his eye caught sight of a scuttlebutt, and the tin-pot on its head.
Obviously it helps David Cameron, George Osborne and their tin-pot Government are plunging so swiftly in public favour.
It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
The Government loves picking our pockets and using the money to fund the luxurious lifestyles of MPs, MEPs and tin-pot dictators in far-off lands.
To others, he was a tin-pot dictator best kept at arm's length, but one who nonetheless invited trouble through his dealings with Russia, Iran and Cuba.
Which is why I loathe this growing wave of poppy fascism, whereby tin-pot dictators deride nonwearers as insulters of the dead.
No fears of the tin-pot warmongering of the madhouse, as espoused by the last Republican keeper of the White House, the non-lamented George W Bush.
