Definitions
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- noun merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
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Examples
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Yeah, the marketing and profit motive shlock is fairly overwhelming, as well as the borrowings from homosexual reality that is an actual real case of civil rights and demanding they be honored.
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He's never tried to ape Bressonian simplicity (which is pretty much the opposite of '70s exploitation shlock, which is where he lives), and he could never replicate it if he tried so why bring it up?
Hollywood Elsewhere 2009
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I actually saw this in a theater, because it just looked like the kind of shlock that would be entertainingly over-the-top.
Home Theater Forum 2010
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What are the new shlock classics of the past 20 years?
Scott walks among us, transparentizing aluminum frankwu 2009
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What are the shlock classics of the past twenty years?
Guilty Pleasures? frankwu 2009
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Not high art, but trying to achieve a shlock high and bring the gore and bizarrity of the Troma films to a new apex.
Fantastic Fest – Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl « Geek Related 2009
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What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire.
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I guess I've leave it to others to decide if my novel is a rebuke to today's pop-shlock horror culture, or a part of it.
author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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I would much prefer to have a professional doing it for me, but to get past the shlock you have to be able to spend the bigger coin.
Why authors shouldn’t contact journalists directly « The Book Publicity Blog 2010
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Paul Giamatti plays the protagonist of the title, a Jewish producer of shlock television; his shlemiel persona rivals that of Larry David.
Regina Weinreich: Barney's Version: A Who's Who of Canada Regina Weinreich 2010
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