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adj. embarrassingly stingy

bum, punk, cheap, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

worthless

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

battered, bedraggled, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

trumpery, trashy, rubbishy

adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"

debilitated, enfeebled, infirm, seedy

adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

mean, beggarly

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

penny-pinching, close, cheeseparing

adj. giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted

adj. unwilling to part with money

grudging, niggardly, scrimy

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"

meager, meagre, scrimpy

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

parsimonious, penurious

adj. excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

bad

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

base

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

cardboard, flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

common, crude, coarse

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

coarsened

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

commercial

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

less

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

poor, mediocre, second-rate

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

ropey, ropy

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

second-class

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

third-rate

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

utility, utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

generous

adj. willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation"

expensive

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

high-class, high-toned

adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"

superior

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

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