Big media is, at its biggest, a down-market affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPod, Therefore I Am] Reference

DC is an echo chamber, a bubble, a down-market Versailles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary] Reference

I like the bit about the Mail being a 'down-market tabloid'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-11] Reference

"We have no intention of going down-market," Mr. O'Neill says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeweler Aims to Raise] Reference

Senate itself, rather than some downstate, down-market legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Handel: The Right Way to Sell a Senate Seat] Reference

Fashioning Acuras out of down-market Hondas is a double-edged sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 Acura TSX] Reference

Brooksian down-market miserati never had much of the drippings from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Nostalgia for the Middle Ages? A Rotten Thousand Years] Reference

Toyota's Land Cruiser flagship SUV is a down-market version of Lexus' LX 470.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most-Reliable Luxury Cars 2006 © Acura Acura...] Reference

They're responsible for making this formerly down-market beverage relevant again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magnifico Chaos] Reference

See also how designer fashions move down-market over the course of several seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content] Reference

Okay, US is a celebrity magazine, a down-market People, whose focus is entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Kosner: Just like US] Reference

Beautiful historic buildings surrounded by down-market shops and boarded up buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Death of] Reference

Middle-class advertising should be "massified," while avoiding down-market tone and manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: How Marketers Can Win During China's "Recession"] Reference

David-Brooksian "down-market" people, the poor, were of course in the most pervasive misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Nostalgia for the Middle Ages? A Rotten Thousand Years] Reference

So your friend may have a point, because today the term "used car" carries a down-market image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suggestions for a Teen's First Car] Reference

The clientele is decidedly down-market: "I don't think there was a full set of teeth in the house.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mimosa Makeover] Reference

There is no down-market car on which BMW bases the 3 Series, nor one on which Porsche bases its Boxster.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 Acura TSX] Reference

Years ago, there was a VERY down-market cologne for men, made by British Sterling, called "Bitter Lemon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

So why risk moving down-market now by opening a host of smaller stores offering less-expensive merchandise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiffany's Boutique Risk] Reference

Now, the chef has put his initials, somewhat coyly, on a down-market, downtown place, DBGB Kitchen and Bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New York Spin on French Classics] Reference

In fact, this model looks like she could be a down-market 99 cent-store Brazt doll knock-off named Party Glitters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 3 Recap: Everybody Hates Gretchen] Reference

Whereas it was once a place where the well-heeled came to be seen, today Grafton Street is distinctly down-market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Street is microcosm of Ireland] Reference

Time for some parents to recoup that scant investment in down-market plastic sleds for the kids, and have some fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Let It Snow] Reference

Ironically, the down-market heroines Rogers championed were all but doomed to slip out of the public consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead] Reference

Don't bet on it: Wal-Mart Stores may be eyeing upscale style, but Saks sure isn't going down-market with its strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saks Names Sadove CEO, Chases Upscale Clientele] Reference

It was so down-market, in fact, that it made a suitable gift to a boy as his first bottle of cologne, the boy being me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

But in the end, of course by about the mid 1950s, the mini-boom in down-market pulp fiction inevitably ground to a halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference

And if you feel the need to have unsupervised rug-rats crawling all over the landscape, you need to move down-market a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Obama's ample self-regard is lapsing into hubris."] Reference

Today, a widening state deficit and double-digit unemployment make Silver's take on down-market California especially timely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review Roundup] Reference

The Christmas day movie represents a bid by Mr. Sandler to expand his down-market humor to family films -- the movie is rated PG.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitching a Ride on a Star] Reference

There's also the risk of alienating core customers who won't appreciate seeing their favorite designer sold at down-market stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Wang's Idea of Empire: Marry High, Low, In Between] Reference

Your down-market reviewer could only manage three lines of Goethe on earthworms, a subject not very copiously treated in our book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraud and Science] Reference

CEOs, Executives, well-bred men of distinction, they wouldn't even think of lowering themselves by using the down-market Mont Blanc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Important pens. Important insects.] Reference

My all-time favourite TV show is a long-forgotten sitcom called Nearest and Dearest, which was about as far down-market as you could go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The good, the bad, and the somewhere-in-between] Reference