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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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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 jackleg
jackleg
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
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