Jackleg

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers.
  • adj. Unscrupulous or dishonest.
  • adj. Makeshift; temporary.
  • n. An unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker.
  • n. A strikebreaker.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. amateur, untrained, incompetent
  • adj. dishonest, unscrupulous
  • n. A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
  • Word Usage
    "Huckabee is a jackleg preacher turned politician and doesn't like Romney because he's Mormon."
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