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adjective
- 1. of extremely poor quality: informal "rough strip joints and tenth-rate clubs"
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The meaning of TENTH-RATE is of the lowest character or quality.
tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate) 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.
What does the adjective tenth-rate mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective tenth-rate. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised. See meaning & use.
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Adjective. Of extremely poor quality, godawful. 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.
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