pinchbeck in English

adjective
1
appearing valuable, but actually cheap or tawdry.
Of course, Muggeridge was unreformed, and when he actually decided to take religion seriously he was contemptuously dismissed as ‘a pinchbeck Savonarola’.
noun
1
an alloy of copper and zinc resembling gold, used in watchmaking and costume jewelry.

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1. By contrast, Ivy Pinchbeck argues that Capitalism created the conditions for women's emancipation

2. To regard as arising from a specified cause or source: "Other people Ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism" (Daniel Pinchbeck)

3. To regard as arising from a specified cause or source: "Other people Ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism" (Daniel Pinchbeck)

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