: low in character, cost, or prestige
low-rent thugs
a low-rent movie
a low-rent literary form
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Examples of low-rent in a Sentence
a store full of low-rent items
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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.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
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.
—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
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
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.
—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
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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-rent. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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