"low-rent" meaning in English

See low-rent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} low-rent (not comparable)
  1. (derogatory) Low-quality, trashy. Tags: derogatory, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-low-rent-en-adj-Jc734wGf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1994 September 16, Roger Ebert, “Timecop”, in Chicago Sunday Times, archived from the original on 2005-11-13",
          "text": "You see what we're up against here. \"Timecop,\" a low-rent \"Terminator,\" is the kind of movie that is best not thought about at all, for that way madness lies.",
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          "ref": "2004 April 10, Alfred Hickling, “Review: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Hollinghurst's debut novel, The Swimming Pool Library (1988), was lauded for its startling conflation of high literary style and low-rent sex, and presented an eye-opening trawl through the London gay scene, from private clubs to public toilets, in the laconic tone of a latter-day Henry James.",
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          "ref": "2005 August 11, Dave “Georgia Studebaker” Miller, “Re: Maybe I should have advertized Boomerang like this.....”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet)",
          "text": "That's a text book definition of low-rent hoochie mama if I ever saw it. Guarantee you she's got her tramp stamp across her hips.",
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          "ref": "2007, Barbara Brown Smith, Rise & Dine: Breakfast in Boston",
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