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punk rock, punk

n. rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk

n. material for starting a fire

hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer

n. an aggressive and violent young criminal

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

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

fuel

n. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft"

firewood

n. wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood"

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

worthless

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

bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

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

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

rubbishy, trashy

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"

bad

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

base

adj. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

cardboard, flimsy

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

cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry

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

coarse, common

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, commercial-grade

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

deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched

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. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

mediocre

adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

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(a), utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

superior

adj. having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit; "Mars and Jupiter are the closest in of the superior planets"

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