as in cheap
of low quality
a store full of low-rent items
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Recent Examples of low-rent
New in the lineup is Strip Law, a series about an uptight Vegas lawyer who teams up with a low-rent magician to add some pizzazz to Sin City’s dumbest cases.
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Lucy Ford,
Time,
27 Dec. 2025
The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in what looks to be a Los Angeles-type of low-rent apartment, as well as on a pier.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
18 Dec. 2025
The natural habitat for these kinds of production values is home viewing, where the ripe dialogue can do the heavy lifting and the low-rent CGI explosions don’t have to stand up to big-screen scrutiny.
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Catherine Bray,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2025
The Muslim community in Dearborn, and indeed all Muslim communities across Michigan and the whole of our nation, will not be intimidated or baited by low-rent bigots.
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Heath Kalb,
CBS News,
19 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for low-rent
Lucy Ford,
Time,
27 Dec. 2025
The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in what looks to be a Los Angeles-type of low-rent apartment, as well as on a pier.
—
Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
18 Dec. 2025
The natural habitat for these kinds of production values is home viewing, where the ripe dialogue can do the heavy lifting and the low-rent CGI explosions don’t have to stand up to big-screen scrutiny.
—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2025
The Muslim community in Dearborn, and indeed all Muslim communities across Michigan and the whole of our nation, will not be intimidated or baited by low-rent bigots.
—
Heath Kalb,
CBS News,
19 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for low-rent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-rent
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The revolution won’t come cheap.
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Across six online experiments, the researchers showed participants a cheaper lower-quality item such as a sweater alongside a pricier higher-quality version.
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Rebecca Lowe joins Dan Patrick to discuss some of the top storylines around the World Cup, including Cristiano Ronaldo's poor play to start, the United States' potential and more.
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Will the gap between rural and urban America – and the gap between rich and poor America – decline or grow?
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The production quality was terrible.
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But in May of 1943, a terrible fire burned his studio to the ground.
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Against Australia in the last 16, Argentina were again labouring when faced with an inferior opponent, digging in and determined to spoil their World Cup dreams.
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Uruguay tied again, this time a 2-2 stalemate against another adversary that less than two weeks ago, pretty much every soccer pundit would have deemed inferior.
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In two randomized trials conducted by Stanford economist Nick Bloom, for example, workers reported improved mental health, not worse.
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Heavy rain was bad enough, but lightning in the area is, obviously, nothing to be trifled with.
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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Most soils need to be amended with coarse sand or pumice for better drainage.
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Crews will experience coarse terrain, pervasive dust, and a surface unlike anything here on Earth.
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Even with data center experts and how common the trade has become now, the average hospital data center may take anywhere from two to five years.
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Recreational swimming is not permitted, yet anglers fishing for tilapia, largemouth bass and carp are a common sight along the rocky sides of the soft-bottom areas.
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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/low-rent. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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