To you or me he would have looked like what he was, a second or third-rate tragedian.

There are numerous second- and third-rate hotels in the city and suburbs.

There are too many cheap lawyers and third-rate politicians there.

They tell us what it is, a third-rate city in a stony wilderness.

He is a music master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist.

From that time, the latter took his position as a third-rate man.

As a boy, I have seen it ranked only as a third-rate seaport.

Carr says we have not a more useful,—but third-rate, my dear.

I'd rather not attempt anything in which I can never be more than third-rate.

"Sheila Vaughn or Morissey, a sort of third-rate actress," he answered.