Definition of "low-rent" []

• Informal Having inexpensive rent: a low-rent apartment. (adjective)
• Informal Of low social status or moral character: "Steve Buscemi ... may play low-rent, amoral types—hit men, weasels, snivelers—but ... he's more complicated than that” ( Richard Leiby). (adjective)
• Informal Lacking taste or refinement: a low-rent television drama. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The offices had a casual architectural uniformity best described as low-rent modernism—Mondrian without the colors."
• "It's not just the low-rent squalor that gets Kit down, though."
• "Over the past few years, Warren has paid more attention to drugs, booze and women than his career, which as of late has mostly consisted of a series of seedy exploitation films and low-rent theater productions."