second-rate
Example Sentences
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Second-rate young men went abroad, their CVs condensed into the acronym FILTH: Failed in London, Try Hong Kong.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2016
Second-rate Chandler is not a commodity to conjure with, if you want to play literary one-upmanship.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2014
Second-rate writing is all telescope�all 'birdseye view'�like the poetry of a bad poetess, full of sweeping generalizations and abstraction like Man, Life, the World, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Second-rate European orchestras can usually be hired for concerts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Second-rate conceptions excitedly and approximately put into words derive from it an illusive attraction which may make them for a time, and with all but the coolest judges, pass as first-rate.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
