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tin-pot
a. 1 (context informal English) inferior; shoddy. 2 (context informal English) Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially amusingly so.
Usage examples of "tin-pot".
DItente's on a fast track to hell again and every other tin-pot nation in the Third World seems to have an atomic bomb ready to defend its honor.
The short drop to the ground forced a grunt from him and caused his tin-pot helmet to bounce off.
I hadn't asked to be embroiled in the politics of their tin-pot little duchy, but I had been bloody near killed more times than I could count, cut and wounded and half-drowned, scared out of my wits--and all I was getting at the end of it was the sneers of Sapten and the handshake of his blasted highness.