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adjective of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
inferior; mediocre: a second-rate performance.
Origin of second-rate First recorded in 1660–70
SYNONYMS FOR second-rate 2 middling, inadequate, undistinguished, pedestrian, commonplace.
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OTHER WORDS FROM second-rate second-rateness, noun sec·ond·rat·er, noun Words nearby second-rate second of arc, second papers, second person, second position, second quantum number, second-rate , Second Reader, second reading, Second Reich, Second Republic, second row
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Example sentences from the Web for second-rate The place begins to feel like a second-rate Madame Tussauds.
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At a certain point, the Christie staffers begin to sound like characters in a second-rate Tarantino script.
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Or did the poor guy have to read a second-rate novel or a false-sounding biography in his last hours on earth?
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I used to be obsessed with the second-rate films of Alfred Hitchcock.
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When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens.
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Second-rate man Boswell may have been, as he himself so oft admits, yet as a biographer he stands first in the front rank.
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Otherwise, to what use could these second-rate horses be put?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 | Various
Let us see what these second-rate schemers make of it all, she said.
The Angel of Pain | E. F. Benson
A pretty good culinary apple of second-rate quality; in use during October; but scarcely worth cultivation.
British Pomology | Robert Hogg
Beatrix playing comedy was judged to be a second-rate actress.
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British Dictionary definitions for second-rate adjective not of the highest quality; mediocre
second in importance, etc
Derived forms of second-rate second-rater , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to second-rate crummy, inferior, mediocre, below par, cheap, deficient, inadequate, poor, rotten, shabby, shoddy, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, low-grade, second-class, second-best, common