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Recent Examples of low-rent Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans. arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025 Hooks could go for broke with the best of them, her Sweeney Sisters musical outings alongside Nora Dunn a throwback to Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer in the duo's channeling of over-the-top low-rent showbiz glitz. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025 These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024 By contrast, Doom: The Dark Ages flings the player back into the dark ages to witness a war between two factions that look like a low-rent knock-off imitation of series like Warhammer — grotesqueries and all. Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for low-rent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-rent
Adjective
  • Three or four people to one cabin was far cheaper than the same number of people booking three or four plane tickets to get to Spain.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • Once delivered, framing and panel assembly are faster and cheaper than conventional builds—cutting structural build time by 40% and labor costs by 20%.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • The product was released in 2023 to a poor reception, and discontinued before the company began winding down operations in February.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 24 May 2025
  • The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • One night the fish was very overcooked and covered with a terrible sauce.
    Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • Djokovic knew he’d be seeded to play one of Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev or Taylor Fritz in the quarters, and in the end landed Zverev, which isn’t a terrible outcome, but would leave him with a possible Sinner-Alcaraz double bill in the semifinals and final to lift the trophy.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Dream had more second-chance points and won the turnover margin, compensating for their inferior 3-point shooting.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Since its establishment by the 1947 National Security Act, the agency’s intelligence collection, analysis and foresight have proven inferior to that of The New York Times at a tiny fraction of the cost.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • There are two types of repellents: Taste, which often contains capsaicin and requires the animal to take a nibble; and odor, which is sulfur-based and smells like rotten eggs.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
  • The smell, an odor like rotten eggs, is the sargassum piles decomposing, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But, are seed oils worse than saturated animal fats?
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • If sinister twists or Roy-style bad dads do it for you, hang on past the hour mark.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • See the trailer for Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie below (disclaimer: coarse language).
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Fine grade or low-scratch scrubbers will help with delicate jobs, while coarse scrubbers can clean cast iron, stone, and even strip paint.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • Biden had a skin lesion removed from his chest on February 2023 that was a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025

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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/low-rent. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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