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low-grade

[ loh-greyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.:
The mine yields low-grade silver ore.

First recorded in 1875–80; low ¹ + grade

The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.

She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.

Now a third nurse who also worked with the same Ebola patients who infected Romero is exhibiting the same low-grade fever.

To me, being a Jew carries a low-grade paranoia that is both an overreaction and entirely justified, based on history.

The film cuts to a very early, low-grade video of Anna on camera introducing Femen.

The seat of a governorship of low grade, like a kaimakamlik, is always a home of oppression in Turkey.

Little by little Peter's table of statistics filled; here a pocket, there a streak, yon a clear ten feet of low-grade ore.

They were not merely illiterate and untaught, but showed also an extremely low grade of reasoning power.

The people were agriculturists who possessed no low grade of natural material or mental culture.

The two new low-grade Pennsylvania freight tracks are used only for slow traffic; largely coal and westbound steel empties.

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