tenth-rate
adjUK, US /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/
1
Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
- 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.1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, BBC2
- 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.2007, Stuart Heritage, Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The Vagina-Heavy Fall-Out:
- Synonyms
- crummy, cruddy, drecky, worthless, trashy, two-bit, manky, low-quality, crappy, shitty, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable
- Related terms
- fifth-rate, first-rate, fourth-rate, second-rate, sixth-rate, third-rate