| 单词 | second-rateness |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecond-rateness second-rateness n. (also second-ratedness) the quality of being second-rate. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [noun] > quality of being second rate or secondary secondariness1687 second-rateness1865 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > quality of being second-rate second-rateness1865 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 219 She forgot the old feeling of failure and of second-rate-ness; she found herself of consequence. 1891 G. H. Kingsley in Field 10 Jan. 39/2 Some have to be contented with the second ratedness of a swirly hole, as against the profundity of Lake Superior. 1905 G. B. Shaw Irrational Knot p. xiii This consoles us for the undeniable secondrateness of the people we do know. 1945 R. A. Knox God & Atom vi. 84 We tacitly acknowledged in ourselves a kind of moral second-rateness which served as an excuse for low standards. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 1576/4 The second-rateness of Douglas (but to be second-rate is to be next to first-rate). < as lemmas |
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