Tinhorn

Word TINHORN
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Definitions and meanings of "Tinhorn"

What do we mean by tinhorn?

A petty braggart who pretends to be rich and important. noun

Cheap, inferior; pretentious adjective

A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes noun

A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tinhorn

The word "tinhorn" in example sentences

If the U.S., France and Britain can't topple a tinhorn despot like Gadhafi who is loathed by most of his own people, the damage to Western credibility will be severe and long-lasting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sam, a self-confessed tinhorn, “expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground and glittering in the sun on the mountain summits.” ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

Any tinhorn dictator can claim (and have) secret intelligence and national security to justify war or oppression. ❋ Unknown (2008)

El presidente wasn't the only tinhorn dictator to find succor in the U.S. when Jimmy Carter was toasting his friend Ferdinand Marcos, who had not yet been deposed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Could it be the fact that more and more people are looking at his little tinhorn man-god and not liking what they see? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seemed as though we supported any tinhorn dicatator as long as he was anti-communist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The short term profits of multinational corporations and a few tinhorn dictators? editoress Says: ❋ Unknown (2007)

As Narco News has documented for nine years, while the U.S. suffered under a tinhorn tyrant named Bush, the people of this hemisphere have been untying the colonial knot just fine even as Washington opposed them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What if after that president, or one of his top aides, leaves office, some tinhorn dictator in some banana republic who doesn't like him decides to put him in jail during a visit? ❋ Unknown (2009)

They hate us because we're hyporcrits propping up tinhorn dictators in their countries at their expense. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- How is it that Americans were convinced to launch an unprovoked war against a third-world nation run by a tinhorn tyrant? ❋ Unknown (2008)

And only you can command the country to grow beyond the tinhorn phony patriotism of this administration. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But not Kuralt, who grew weary over war and riots and tinhorn controversies that in the end, he felt, didn't matter very much. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Did Krauthammer just call Bush a tinhorn, banana-republic dictator? ❋ Unknown (2006)

What was your first ... Dammit, you tinhorn Trebek, the answer is "Screw you." ❋ Unknown (2008)

We call states with tinhorn dictators or any puny little leaders who won't do as we tell them failed states. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This week bloggers across the country raised their voices to demand accountability for the actions of this tinhorn tyrant who's tried to turn 9/11 into the personal property of his campaign communications team. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though originally announced in 1823 to keep meddlesome European colonialists out of our hemisphere, many neo-conservative revisionists argue that it gives the American Eagle carte blanche to invade any democratically elected, obstreperous Latin American country and sink her talons deeply into the neck of any tinhorn dictator who presumes to speak for his people. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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