[
UK
/ˈɜːsæts/
]
[ US /ˈɛɹˌsɑts, ˈɛɹˌzɑts/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹˌsɑts, ˈɛɹˌzɑts/ ]
NOUN
- an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
ADJECTIVE
-
artificial and inferior
substitute coffee
ersatz coffee
How To Use ersatz In A Sentence
- As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
- I used to make an ersatz napalm with petrol and expanded polystyrene foam.
- Stephen carries an ashplant cane that becomes an ersatz version of Siegfried's sword: STEPHEN: AH NON, PAR EXEMPLE! As a wagoner would his mudheeldy wheesindonk
- Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
- Neil Tennant, for all his limitations, is one of the most human singers I know, and not in some Whitney / Britney sense that equates humanity with loud declamation of ersatz emotion.
- But Mr Caruso has brought the open - air mall to a pitch of ersatz perfection.
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- In short, the market is divided into real surplus, ersatz surplus, and newly manufactured ammunition and components.
- First of all let me congratulate you on the basis that any time you can work the word ersatz into a discussion, its a good one. Baseball Analysts
- But not before I remembered my bereavement and brushed an ersatz tear from my eye. RUNNING FROM THE LAW