adjective.
Designed and made to sell without concern for quality; cheap.
noun.
A cheap item.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
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.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary.
noun.
A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods
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adjective.
designed to sell quickly without concern for quality
Word Usage
"Well, I went on perusing the work, and found almost at once that it was what is called a catchpenny, and depended altogether, for its success, upon the fame and reputation of its predecessor of nearly the same name."