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potboiler
noun
pot·boil·er ˈpät-ˌbȯi-lər 
: a usually inferior work (as of art or literature) produced chiefly for profit
Did you know?
Potboiler draws its meaning from what was once the heartbeat of the home, the hearth and its boiling pot. In the days before modern conveniences, it was essential to maintain a fire within a home's hearth for warmth and domestic activities. In order "to make the pot boil" or "to keep the pot boiling" for cooking, one needed fuel, and to acquire fuel one typically needed an income. When artistic and literary works, especially inferior ones, became the means of keeping the pot boiling in some homes during the 19th century, it didn't take long for the literati to criticize such works as insignificant potboilers.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Sounds like a pretty straightforward potboiler, right? 
Wired, 13 July 2022 And where the potboiler would inevitably culminate in a moment of murderous revenge, Denis chooses a violence of emotion and language that forces her characters to bear the responsibilities of their decisions with a quiet desperation. Erik Morse, Vogue, 9 July 2022 But the combination of marquee names, auteur production, and potboiler plotting has proved irresistible. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 May 2022 But then Tina Brown, the writer making the comment in her new royal potboiler, is not, in that sense, nice. Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 As a young man, Bourgoin resembled a character out of a potboiler. Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 Based on a Nora Roberts potboiler, the movie follows Grace (Milano), a successful mystery novelist whose sister, Kathleen (Emilie Ullerup), is killed. Tina Horn, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2022 Unlike that wife, Hitler at least gets some grudging respect and decent dialogue in this potboiler about the diplomatic efforts to stop Germany. New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022 Get ready to simmer in the latest potboiler from prolific creator Taylor Sheridan. Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021 See More
Wired, 13 July 2022 And where the potboiler would inevitably culminate in a moment of murderous revenge, Denis chooses a violence of emotion and language that forces her characters to bear the responsibilities of their decisions with a quiet desperation. Erik Morse, Vogue, 9 July 2022 But the combination of marquee names, auteur production, and potboiler plotting has proved irresistible. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 May 2022 But then Tina Brown, the writer making the comment in her new royal potboiler, is not, in that sense, nice. Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 As a young man, Bourgoin resembled a character out of a potboiler. Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 Based on a Nora Roberts potboiler, the movie follows Grace (Milano), a successful mystery novelist whose sister, Kathleen (Emilie Ullerup), is killed. Tina Horn, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2022 Unlike that wife, Hitler at least gets some grudging respect and decent dialogue in this potboiler about the diplomatic efforts to stop Germany. New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022 Get ready to simmer in the latest potboiler from prolific creator Taylor Sheridan. Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1783, in the meaning defined above
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