ersatz

Speech parts

1. ersatz - Noun

2. ersatz - Adjective

3. ersatz - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation

artificial and inferior

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Examples

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised. Simone Weil

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry, the only ersatz of God, the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself. Simone Weil

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner. Aldous Huxley

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Malcolm Muggeridge

We have a hunger for something like authenticity, but are easily satisfied by an ersatz facsimile. George Orwell

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