: 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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Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans.
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arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Hooks could go for broke with the best of them, her Sweeney Sisters musical outings alongside Nora Dunn a throwback to Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer in the duo's channeling of over-the-top low-rent showbiz glitz.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025
These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
By contrast, Doom: The Dark Ages flings the player back into the dark ages to witness a war between two factions that look like a low-rent knock-off imitation of series like Warhammer — grotesqueries and all.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
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arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Hooks could go for broke with the best of them, her Sweeney Sisters musical outings alongside Nora Dunn a throwback to Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer in the duo's channeling of over-the-top low-rent showbiz glitz.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025
These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
By contrast, Doom: The Dark Ages flings the player back into the dark ages to witness a war between two factions that look like a low-rent knock-off imitation of series like Warhammer — grotesqueries and all.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for low-rent
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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-rent. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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