tin-pot

Adjective

Meaning

(informal) Inferior; shoddy.

(informal) Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially in a petty and amusing manner.

Examples

Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Mao. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

It is even more dangerous to be pro-West. One disagreement in defence of a national cause, and out goes that civilian leader by a coup d'etat. He gets replaced by a tin-pot military dictator who would not dare to disagree about anything, including the vital national interests of his country. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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