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Meaning of tenth-rate | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
tɛnθ ɹeɪt

Definitions

Of extremely poor quality, godawful.

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

tenthousandfold tentiform tentiginous tentillar tentless tentlike

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