tenth-rate
UK/tɛnθ ɹeɪt/
tenth-rate adjective: of extremely poor quality, godawful.
Adjective
tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate)
- Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
- I started off by saying that this is such a tenth-rate film that I don't believe that it would disturb anybody's faith.1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, BBC2
- If there was a saying that said 'the devil has all the tunes that sound like a tenth-rate Justin Timberlake B-side, and he performs them in the style of a marionette puppet being operated by a heroin addict' then there might be a case.2007, Stuart Heritage, Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The Vagina-Heavy Fall-Out
Synonyms of tenth-rate
Forms of tenth-rate
| comparative | more tenth-rate |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tenth-rate |
Questions about tenth-rate
- What does tenth-rate mean?
- Tenth-rate means of extremely poor quality, godawful.
- What part of speech is tenth-rate?
- Tenth-rate is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tenth-rate?
- Tenth-rate is pronounced /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/ (UK).
Words near tenth-rate in the dictionary
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