tinpot
- s inferior (especially of a country's leadership)
he's a tinpot Hitler
- But Rushdie dismisses this sort of talk as the rantings of "tinpot leaders with no serious following.
- Mencken's ears were pretty well shut to the 20th century: Stravinsky, he insisted, "never had a musical idea in his life," and Schoenberg was a "tinpot revolutionist" dealing in .
- At the sun-bleached airport, Bush was greeted with the Gulf's signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism.