tenth-rate

comparative more tenth-rate · superlative most tenth-rate

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

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   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