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scrawny, scrubby, stunted

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

puny, runty, shrimpy

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off

adj. well below average height

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"

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

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

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"

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

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