What is "low-rent"

Usage examples of "low-rent".

He lived in a low-rent, one-bedroom house not far from the church, a little white box settled in one corner, with beveled siding, small hedged yard and mossy roof.

Sixteen strip malls in low-rent exurbs were registered to the Cossack brothers.

Compared to their low-rent, two-bedroom apar ment, Olivia guessed it was.

The Bat was shorter than Oscar, more kind of pint-sized, very ratty and low-rent, with long Brylcreem greaseball hair swept back in hoodlum waves, and this brown mole just to the right of his nose.

The real name for CC's is the Caliente Cafe, a low-rent establishment housed in an abandoned service station near the railroad tracks.

The stuff was grown in illicit matter compilers, squirreled away in vacant low-rent housing blocks, and carried by the runners to the actual street dealers.

The city dickered back and forth between tossing out the low-rent LCs, chemi-heads, and dealers along with the working poor and mowing down the shaky structures or revitalizing.

Low-rent dumpster-strewn residential streets and Projects' driveways that become alleys, gritty passages behind stores and dumpsters and warehouses and loading docks and Empire Waste Displacement's mongo hangars, etc.

He passed the bus depot and hit a strip that might have started out as anything but now was made up entirely of low-rent operations serving the courthouse population, bail bondsmen and storefront legal missions, like the night shift woman had said.

A beer boy comes by collecting orders and coins before hustling off with his pail, and it seems so charming, quaint, and appealing--an evocation of the community spirit Finney sees in these low-rent performers.

What had formerly been the Meat-Packing District was gentrifying rapidly, high-priced boutiques and luxury condos driving out the artists, drug dealers, and fetish clubs that had flourished here in low-rent days.

And the bastard compounded his madness by hiding out in the low-rent bowels of Mazatlan like some half-mad leper gone over the brink after yet another debilitating attack of string warts and Herpes Simplex lesions.

Lounge Lizard Linda--a low-rent lollapalooza living off lesbian love.

Its apartment complexes were as cramped as any low-rent city skyscraper, only these were ring-shaped, occupying the lower fifty meters of each circular endwall.

Almost at once he licked his lips, turned a sickly fishbelly-white, and looked away, studying the various low-rent furnishings of Feeble's miniscule waiting room -- the three folding chairs, the standing ashtray gray with recent ash, and the coffee table covered with issues of Personality Today.