Word of the Day for Thursday, March 10, 2011
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ersatz \AIR-sahts; UR-sats\, adjective:
ersatz \AIR-sahts; UR-sats\, adjective:
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Being a substitute or imitation, usually an inferior one.
Being a substitute or imitation, usually an inferior one.
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The B.O., as it has turned out, is the ersatz leader of the free world. Why, you may ask? President Sarkozy from France is now filling the leadership void in the middle east by calling for air strikes on Libya; meanwhile, the B.O. continues to play golf and his fiddle while the middle east is burning!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Meanwhile, a poor copy was erected in the courtyard; many an unsuspecting traveler paid homage to that ersatz masterpiece.-- Edith Pearlman, "Girl and Marble Boy", The Atlantic, December 29, 1999
Meanwhile, a poor copy was erected in the courtyard; many an unsuspecting traveler paid homage to that ersatz masterpiece.-- Edith Pearlman, "Girl and Marble Boy", The Atlantic, December 29, 1999
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All we can create in that way is an ersatz culture, the synthetic product of those factories we call variously universities, colleges or museums.-- Sir Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Modern Art
All we can create in that way is an ersatz culture, the synthetic product of those factories we call variously universities, colleges or museums.-- Sir Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Modern Art
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Then there was the sheaf of hostile letters larded with ersatz sympathy, strained sarcasm or pure spite.-- "Time for GAA to become a persuader", Irish Times, April 13, 1998
Then there was the sheaf of hostile letters larded with ersatz sympathy, strained sarcasm or pure spite.-- "Time for GAA to become a persuader", Irish Times, April 13, 1998
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Ersatz derives from German Ersatz, "a substitute."
Ersatz derives from German Ersatz, "a substitute."
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