b-movie
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
Example Sentences
- "But as it is, the script is so riddled with juvenalia, borrowed character types and misguided flights of poetic fancy that it feels like the work of a teenager who has seen too many B movies."
- "Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”)."