low-rent
Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
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How to use low-rent in a sentence
And actual vote-buying is a pretty low-rent form of corruption anyway.
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is not some low-rent gossip columnist or celebrity stalker.
“low-rent” as in he works out of a strip mall and gets business through cheesy TV ads.
Good land at a high rent is always better than poor land at a low rent; the average profit per acre on 5s.
A Short History of English Agriculture | W. H. R. CurtlerIf such a man has a long lease at a low rent, he may be overwhelmed in debt, and leave his land in very bad condition.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870) | James Godkin
I am compelled to believe that in the old period the peasants enjoyed their little holdings at a very low rent.
Disturbed Ireland | Bernard H. BeckerThere are also tenants of small colonial farms, at a low rent, and having many advantages.
Knowledge is Power: | Charles KnightThrough the generosity of Mrs. Frances Lang, of whom they were leased, a comparatively low rent was paid.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI | Various
British Dictionary definitions for low-rent
informal cheap and inferior: low-rent films
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