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tinpot

[ UK /tˈɪnpɒt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inferior (especially of a country's leadership)
    he's a tinpot Hitler

How To Use tinpot In A Sentence

  • Having failed to steamroller the United Nations Security Council into supporting its invasion, the US has created a tinpot ‘coalition of the willing’ instead.
  • He crashes around like some tinpot dictator and then suggests that I'm the one in need of spiritual help! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • I imagine some tinpot dictator strutting about, telling his latest mistress that if the damn Yanks don't pay up, then no reform will be had.
  • Without the latter, he would just be a tinpot dictator of a small 3rd world country.
  • They have been plagued by infamous tinpot dictators whose corrupt practices, brutality and habitual inefficiency left many Latin American countries mired in political and economic instability for much of the 20th century.
  • time to worry about every tinpot little designer who comes into my office. YELLOW BIRD
  • Why on earth is the USA supposed to be responsible for the unending disasters of every African tinpot country?
  • You'll be known as the unelected Prime Minister who traded oil for justice, let down 270 innocent victims of the Lockerbie disaster, did shady deals with a tinpot dictator, and chose a 'special relationship' with Libya over our staunch friend and ally, the United States of America. A New Dark Age Is Dawning
  • But the trend for tinpot lifestyle dictators can't last forever.
  • The most effective immediate assistance Canada could give in this war would be to build, equip and man a thousand "tinpot" trawlers and minesweepers and put them to work on our own eastern and western approaches and on the eastern and western approaches to the British Isles. War With the Blinds Down
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