tenth-rate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /tɛnθ-ɹeɪt/
Adjective
tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate)
- Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
- 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.
- 2007, Stuart Heritage, Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The Vagina-Heavy Fall-Out:
Synonyms
- (of poor quality): crummy, cruddy, drecky, worthless, trashy, two-bit, manky
- (godawful): crappy, shitty, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable
Related terms
- first-rate
- second-rate
- third-rate
- fourth-rate