as in cheap
of low quality
a store full of low-rent items
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The type of plots that Zelikow and his co-authors detail involved a collection of often dodgy and (relatively) low-rent enablers who were willing to skirt or break U.S. law on behalf of foreign clients.
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Sarah Chayes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Though clearly intended to convey a sense of luxury, the low-rent production values make both characters and movie feel ersatz from the outset.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
In the nineteen-twenties, a Spanish aeronautical genius named Juan de la Cierva invented something called an autogyro, a kind of low-rent helicopter precursor.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Scott, at his most creepy and conniving, plays Tom Ripley, a low-rent con artist in New York in the 1960s who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when a rich shipping magnate employs him to convince the man's wayward heir to come home and stop gallivanting across Italy.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
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Sarah Chayes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Though clearly intended to convey a sense of luxury, the low-rent production values make both characters and movie feel ersatz from the outset.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
In the nineteen-twenties, a Spanish aeronautical genius named Juan de la Cierva invented something called an autogyro, a kind of low-rent helicopter precursor.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Scott, at his most creepy and conniving, plays Tom Ripley, a low-rent con artist in New York in the 1960s who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when a rich shipping magnate employs him to convince the man's wayward heir to come home and stop gallivanting across Italy.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
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