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Use "tinpot" in a sentence
"Revolutions in tinpot republics don’t solve problems; they exacerbate them."
"As if we lived in some kind of tinpot theocracy, Mr. MacAskill intoned that Megrahi would be judged by "a higher authority.""
"A blog which quickly descends, in its comment moderation policy, into the kind of tinpot authoritarianism that the likes of Guido and Dale are just itching to catch a whiff off."