tenth-rate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/

Adjective

tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate)

1. 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.

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