low-rent

[loh-rent]
adjective
Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.

Origin:
1975–80

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low-rent
 
adj
informal cheap and inferior: low-rent films

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Low-rent is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
Other than high-powered law offices and low-rent police stations, the workplace
  is the last unexplored frontier in fiction.
Some to escape warfare, others because the caves made convenient, low-rent
  dwellings.
But there is an ever-growing amount of good writing online, much of which
  suffers from its proximity to these low-rent neighbors.
Picture a low-rent attorney trying to get something on the record via the gray
  areas of procedure.
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