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Answer for the clue "(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise ", 14 letters:
schlockmeister

Word definitions for schlockmeister in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise [syn: shlockmeister ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang derogatory chiefly North America English) A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.

Usage examples of schlockmeister.

But he's no less a schlockmeister for all that, and to anyone who believes the radical notion that entertainment should not be absent of intelligence and should have at its core a soul, a passion, and not a happy facepainted on a balloon, and that stories can be told in which the noble and the inspiring are expressed honestly, vigorously, in terms of the common measure of the human spirit, without resorting to the Welch Men's Chorus humming a glorioso passage in the background to cue our tears .