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low-rent definition

low·-rent (lō′rent′)

adjective

  1. of, for, or like persons lacking education, refinement, etc.; lowbrow; coarse
  2. inferior to others of its kind; second-rate, cheap, etc. a low-rent version of Romeo and Juliet

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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