low-rent

[loh-rent]

adjective

1. Informal.,  second-rate; bargain-basement.

low-rent

adjective

1. informal,  cheap and inferior

   low-rent films

Word History and Origins

Origin of low-rent¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

It’s not just that so many of the spots are low-rent — and we are beyond being surprised by the graphic symptom/side-effect description of pharmaceutical ads — it’s that they are often repeated several times during a program.

From Los Angeles Times

“But what has that got to do with the Los Angeles low-rent public housing program? It has nothing to do with it at all.”

From Los Angeles Times

It is a low-rent security unit, kind of the cheapest version.

From Salon

As the housing crunch hit that state, the low-rent places where his plaintiffs lived “disappeared, and then there is just nowhere for them to go, and it just forces them right into homelessness,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

They are serviced through low-rent "dark stores" - or small shops dedicated to delivery and not open to the public - in densely populated areas, enabling economies of scale.

From BBC

Related Words

• indifferent 
• lousy 
• mediocre 
• substandard