second best

Thus, abortion is another gender gap issue where men and the GOP come out second-best.

With Sanders, Indianapolis had the second-best run defense in the playoffs.

It was a second-best alternative to just counting some of the votes, one which he offered when it looked like he might be losing.

So he wanted to at least explore the second-best option for getting justice for his client, a civil settlement.

Nevertheless, it was the best year since 2006, and 2010 was the second-best year, with employers adding 940,000 jobs.

Poor Johann George came out of it in that way; not second-best, think several.

She was in sober, every-day serge now, and pulling on her second-best cloak.

If he came off second-best a dozen times, he went confidently into the thirteenth trial, brave as Bruce, and equally successful.

You've always come off second-best with Hermansen—and now he's snapped up Mrs. Rantzau under your nose.

That was his own plan; and, though second-best, that also would have done well, had there been no third.