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/ʃlɒk/ · noun
(colloquial, US) Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior..
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.
“The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock. It is too individual, too original for that; […].
And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.
Use schlock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Schlock means (colloquial, US) Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior..
Common synonyms include shlock.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.
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