low-rent
low-rent adjective: low-quality, trashy.
Adjective
low-rent (comparative lower-rent, superlative lowest-rent)
- Low-quality, trashy.
- You see what we're up against here. "Timecop," a low-rent "Terminator," is the kind of movie that is best not thought about at all, for that way madness lies.1994 September 16, Roger Ebert, “Timecop”, in Chicago Sunday Times, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2005
- Hollinghurst's debut novel, The Swimming Pool Library (1988), was lauded for its startling conflation of high literary style and low-rent sex, and presented an eye-opening trawl through the London gay scene, from private clubs to public toilets, in the laconic tone of a latter-day Henry James.2004 April 10, Alfred Hickling, “Review: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst”, in The Guardian
Examples of low-rent in a sentence
- That's a text book definition of low-rent hoochie mama if I ever saw it.2005 August 11, Dave “Georgia Studebaker” Miller, “Re: Maybe I should have advertized^([sic]) Boomerang like this.....”, in...
- Being called a "diner" may have once meant serving low-rent food, but today it's considered a compliment.2007, Barbara Brown Smith, Rise & Dine: Breakfast in Boston:
Synonyms of low-rent
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Forms of low-rent
| comparative | lower-rent |
|---|---|
| superlative | lowest-rent |
Questions about low-rent
- What does low-rent mean?
- Low-rent means low-quality, trashy.
- How do you use low-rent in a sentence?
- That's a text book definition of low-rent hoochie mama if I ever saw it.
- What part of speech is low-rent?
- Low-rent is an adjective.
Words near low-rent in the dictionary
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