of bad quality, poor, shoddy · shabby, seedy, cheesy · stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean
köken: Uncertain, but most likely from kurtí (“short, small”) from Caló (a Romani-Iberian dialect), first introduced in Spanish in the 20th century as a Madrid slang.
¡Pero qué lugar más cutre al que me has traído!
Tus amigos son unos cutres. Siempre que vamos a un bar dicen que se les ha olvidado la cartera.