English

Adjective

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

1. Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
   • 2007, Stuart Heritage, Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The ****-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, ****, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable

Related terms

• first-rate
• second-rate
• third-rate
• fourth-rate