Shabby, cheap, grim — done on the cheap and it shows.
For a grimy bar, a bad hotel, a cut-price job. It can be mildly affectionate — a *bar cutre* is sometimes exactly where you want to be, cheap and unpretentious — but the word itself is a knock.
Spanish colloquial, likely from *cutir*, to strike or wear down.
Fine about places and things, insulting about a person’s home or work.
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