: low in character, cost, or prestige
low-rent thugs
a low-rent movie
a low-rent literary form

Examples of low-rent in a Sentence

a store full of low-rent items
Recent Examples on the Web
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The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages. Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024 The film comes to seem like a low-rent mix of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024 And while Benedict Cumberbatch is always a welcome presence onscreen, his version of Strange continues to be little more than a low-rent Tony Stark.—E.D. 18. Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 23 July 2024 Warren Beatty plays McCabe, a drifter and fast-talker who falls in with, and falls in love with, Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), a madam who offers to improve business at his low-rent brothel. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for low-rent 

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of low-rent was in 1957

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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-rent. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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