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View definitions for second-rate

second-rate

adjective as in inadequate

Strongest matches

Weak matches

adjective as in second-rate/second-class

adjective as in substandard

adjective as in below average

adjective as in second-rate

Strongest matches

Weak matches

adjective as in crummy

noun as in bush-league

noun as in second best

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Example Sentences

The place begins to feel like a second-rate Madame Tussauds.

At a certain point, the Christie staffers begin to sound like characters in a second-rate Tarantino script.

Or did the poor guy have to read a second-rate novel or a false-sounding biography in his last hours on earth?

I used to be obsessed with the second-rate films of Alfred Hitchcock.

When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens.

Down the block, his victim headed into a distinctly second-rate apartment hotel.

First off, it was one of those second-rate places that boasted no doorman.

They had already bought much of the best talent in the country, and they wasted no time on the second-rate.

I have seen men fall out and lose themselves among the army of crooks that throng the second-rate shows.

My only fear was that the gallery might mistake his rather second-rate people for gentlefolk.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to second-rate, such as: crummy, inferior, below par, cheap, deficient, and inadequate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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