low-rent

English

Adjective

low-rent (not comparable)

1. (derogatory) Low-quality, trashy.

   Antonym: high-rent

   • 1994 September 16, Roger Ebert, “Timecop”, in Chicago Sunday Times‎, archived from the original on 2005-11-13:

     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.

   • 2004 April 10, Alfred Hickling, “Review: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 2005 August 11, Dave “Georgia Studebaker” Miller, “Re: Maybe I should have advertized^[sic] Boomerang like this.....”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet):

     That's a text book definition of low-rent hoochie mama if I ever saw it. Guarantee you she's got her tramp stamp across her hips.

   • 2007, Barbara Brown Smith, Rise & Dine: Breakfast in Boston:

     Being called a "diner" may have once meant serving low-rent food, but today it's considered a compliment.

   • 2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Billboards with a pink wash (a visual pun on La Vie en Rose?) featured words like “chic!” and looked low rent too.