: 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
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Depending on the context, Théodore Pellerin, the actor who plays Lurker’s low-rent answer to Tom Ripley, has a boyish lankiness that can read like high-fashion elegance or off-putting awkwardness.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
In this episode, while investigating the disappearance of a missing sheriff, one of The A-Team has booked a band called Cowboy George and the Range Rats to play at a low-rent venue called the Floor ’Em.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
With very few exceptions, low-rent buildings are run down, services are almost impossible to obtain, and except for the fact that New Yorkers have been so brutalized by their living conditions, such housing would be uninhabitable.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
By Ben Christopher and Marisa Kendall, CalMatters California lawmakers are preparing for a historic surge in federal funding for affordable housing construction, a tsunami of subsidy that advocates say could as much as double the number of low-rent units produced by the state over the next decade.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
In this episode, while investigating the disappearance of a missing sheriff, one of The A-Team has booked a band called Cowboy George and the Range Rats to play at a low-rent venue called the Floor ’Em.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
With very few exceptions, low-rent buildings are run down, services are almost impossible to obtain, and except for the fact that New Yorkers have been so brutalized by their living conditions, such housing would be uninhabitable.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
By Ben Christopher and Marisa Kendall, CalMatters California lawmakers are preparing for a historic surge in federal funding for affordable housing construction, a tsunami of subsidy that advocates say could as much as double the number of low-rent units produced by the state over the next decade.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-rent. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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