n. A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Something of little value, adapted to attract popular attention and thus secure a quick sale; anything externally attractive, made merely to sell.
Made or got up to gain money; put forth merely to sell: as, a catchpenny pamphlet.
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adj. designed to sell quickly without concern for quality
Word Usage
"In everything one finds this frank acceptance of twin values which are not expected to have anything in common: on the one hand a quite unclouded, quite unhypocritical assumption of transcendent theory “high ideals”; on the other a simultaneous acceptance of catchpenny realities."