tenth-rate
English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate)
- Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
- 1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, BBC2:
- I started off by saying that this is such a tenth-rate film that I don't believe that it would disturb anybody's faith.
- 2007, Stuart Heritage, "Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The Vagina-Heavy Fall-Out":
- If there was a saying that said 'the devil has all the tunes that sound like a tenth-rate Justin Timberlake B-side, and he performs them in the style of a marionette puppet being operated by a heroin addict' then there might be a case.
- 1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, BBC2:
Synonyms
- (of poor quality): crummy, cruddy, drecky, worthless, trashy, two-bit, manky
- (godawful): crappy, shitty, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable