What is "ersatz"

Usage examples of "ersatz".

Harry swallowed, seeing the way Fudge and Bagman responded to the presence of the ersatz Mr.

Lottie was at the little electric ring making eggless pancakes to go with their ersatz coffee.

To eulogize Phil properly, recall from the post-apocalyptic junkyard a menagerie of maimed automata -- ersatz sheep, a robot German shepherd, a haggish simulacrum of Secretariat -- and a crew of pertinacious little people, from Lumky to Isidore to Tagomi, then set them singing until they entropically abort.

The nautiloid appeared to drift aft, hanging like an ersatz moon over the deck rail, until it settled almost directly astern.

The ersatz text, though containing some strikeovers and various typographical errors, was in basically fluent and intelligible Latin and described in vivid, erotic detail an imagined homosexual encounter involving the Blesses Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.

Devereaux, somewhat louder than necessary as he walked into the ersatz Alpine lobby with Jennifer Redwing at his side.

Undoubtedly, but above all a desire to counter any possibility of reduction in the knowledge of the novel to a mere adaptation, or even to a televisual or cinematographic ersatz filled with non-essential elements.

Every high-ranking office in El Iskandryia seemed kitted out with variations on ersatz European, although Islamicist mosaic did at least replace wood panelling in some.

The lukewarm morning ersatz coffee, watery evening soup, and single slice of sawdusty bread are the usual Auschwitz ration: in itself, a sentence to slow death.

Initially, the project called for shore-to-shore cabanas, ersatz beaches and a gift shop to sell the sort of tasteful merchandise that heatstroked, booze-addled tourists seem to favor.

However, most of the ornate spires, great sweeping colonnades, and huge rotundas, with their tall round-topped arches, monolithic lintels, and carved entablatures, were now engulfed by a sprawl of ersatz rococo domes and obelisks, which catered to the banal tastes of the gamblers and hedonists who frequented the planet in droves, and the whole of it was fissured by a labyrinth of narrow stairways, curving ramps, sheltered bridges, and dank tunnels.

Like insisting that he associate himself not only with her but with minstrels and ersatz moat monsters.

We saw a resurgence of fantasy-fat-volumed trilogies detailing marvelous exploits of gods, warriors, and wizards-a thing which is with us still, and which in recent years, as with Tolkien, has taken on the overtones of ersatz scripture.

Within the faith of the Reaganauts and Thatcherites, Chile provides the necessary genesis fable, the ersatz Eden from which the laissez-faire dogma sprang successful and shining.

One such ersatz cattleguard adorned the north-south highway a few hundred yards below Ladd De-vine's Miracle Valley development sign.