secondhanded

Secondhand.

The clerk studied them. "You could get secondhanded ones for half price," he told Aunt Julina kindly.

If the article to which the label or brand is to be attached is secondhanded, the brand or label shall consist of the following: "This mattress (or other article of bedding) is secondhanded and has been sterilized."

Secondhand.

You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!

There were furniture stores, but so many of the secondhanded stores carried furniture.

Secondhand.

We "speak of the things that we have seen," and not as one who offers secondhanded reports.

We believe that Peter, James, and John actually did see holy angels—did behold Meses and Elias, and see Jesus transfigured, upon secondhanded testimonies given on the subject.

Ersatz.

The common error in most architectural schools is that basic design is taught at an abstract level using contemporary artists as examples to go by. This secondhanded process usually produces little Mondrians, Bauers, Gabos, Moores or, if the faculty member has enough to offer, little duplications of himself.

“A grand scale is impersonal, and my thing, as you call it, is real and right here, right now, not some secondhanded satisfaction lording it over the flies."

Secondhand.

Finding that I could not get an answer to my request from the trustees of the British Museum, I have come to the conclusion that these gentlemen did a great injustice in selling my collection at public auction, which was done for no other purpose than that of throwing my valuable specimens into the hands of some of their friends, in order to purchase it secondhanded from them.

If I got it from Mr. Rauh, I would get it secondhanded, or if I got it from you I would get it secondhanded.

Secondhand.

What I have learned outside of what is written in this secret history regarding town and village government, we shall not here mention as it would be recorded from hearsay or secondhanded.

A man in the country does his own thinking. Get him into town and he will be thinking secondhanded.

In second place, repeating another.

The well-springs of scientific truth are not so far exhausted that there is nothing left for the engineering teacher, in the way of research, but to work at it secondhanded, perhaps going no further than to corroborate the earlier work undertaken by manufacturers.

Of course, I think we go secondhanded into most of these conferences anyway, but in this case we would have a definite assurance we would be going in secondhanded.