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low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

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"

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

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

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"

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

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