: low in character, cost, or prestige
low-rent thugs
a low-rent movie
a low-rent literary form
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a store full of low-rent items
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Why do your first interview looking like you’re crammed into a low-rent diner?
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Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
But none targeted the rise of Nazism in Berlin during 1929 and 1930 using a low-rent nightclub as a metaphor for apathy.
—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
The film comes to seem like a low-rent mix of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
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Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
But none targeted the rise of Nazism in Berlin during 1929 and 1930 using a low-rent nightclub as a metaphor for apathy.
—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
The film comes to seem like a low-rent mix of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-rent. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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