low-rent
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]low-rent (not comparable)
- (derogatory) Low-quality, trashy.
- Antonym: high-rent
- 1994 September 16, Roger Ebert, “Timecop”, in Chicago Sunday Times[1], 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[2]:
- 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.
- 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.