adjective/ˈkutɾe/
of bad quality, poor, shoddy; shabby, seedy, cheesy; stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean
“¡Pero qué lugar más cutre al que me has traído!” — The place you've brought me to is so shabby!
Synonyms: pobre, mediocre, sucio, mugriento, abandonado, descuidado, mezquino, pobre de espíritu
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.