| 词汇 | jackleg |
| 释义 | jackleg adjective USinformaluk /ˈdʒæk.leɡ/ us /ˈdʒæk.leɡ/ dishonest, or having little skill or training: 不诚实的;技艺不精的，未经训练的 The jackleg preacher is a stereotype of black pop culture.蹩脚牧师是黑人流行文化的一个刻板印象。 Dishonest artificiality bad faith be rotten to the coreidiom bent cowboy dubiously false finagle fishy fly-by-night mendacious mendaciously misleading misleadingly perjured under false pretencesphrase underhand unreliability unreliable unscrupulous Examples of jacklegjackleg He was a doer, not a thinker; his skills were the skills of an artisan, a tinkerer, a jackleg mechanic. From Project Gutenberg The pilot and his helper were both jackleg medics, at least as far as first aid. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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