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Etymology
Blend of schlock + documentary.
Noun
schlockumentary (plural schlockumentaries)
- (derogatory) A documentary programme or film that is schlocky, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate.
1999 March 5, Troy Patterson, “Celebrities: Caught on Camera”, in Entertainment Weekly:The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."
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