second-rate in English

adjective

1

of mediocre or inferior quality.

a second-rate theater

synonyms: inferior, substandard, low-quality, below par, bad, poor, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, shoddy, chintzy, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, crummy, not up to scratch/snuff, rinky-dink, low-rent

adjective

• inferior, substandard, low-quality, below par, bad, poor, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, shoddy, chintzy, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, crummy, not up to scratch/snuff, rinky-dink, low-rent
• mediocre

Use "second-rate" in a sentence

1. Judaism was not second - rate or easy.

2. Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.

3. Chintzy: [adjective] poor quality; "second-rate"

4. Agrestic elementary has become a second rate debate school.

5. We can't even get into a second-rate hotel.

6. Le Guin adds that even “second- rate stuff” gets printed.

7. Oh, no! I've been abracadabraed into a Fancy Feastin ', second - rate sidekick!

8. 18:12, 29) A second-rate offering was not acceptable to Jehovah.

9. I didn't bargain for all that second-rate mysticism and self-aggrandizing shamanism.

10. 13 Many people begrudge paying so much money for a second-rate service.

11. Her paintings are second - rate productions, alongside those of some of her contemporaries.

12. However, according to Oshinsky, the facilities at City College were "barely second rate."

13. Begrudge doing something They Begrudge paying so much money for a second-rate service

14. 47 synonyms for Crummy: second-rate, cheap, inferior, substandard, poor, pants, miserable, rotten, duff

15. “In the sixteenth century,” explained one historian, “England had been a second-rate power.

16. She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.

17. Begrudge doing something They Begrudge paying so much money for a second-rate service

18. In your own idiom, you're a punk... and a pretty second-rate punk at that.

19. Lavish praise given for undemanding and second rate efforts lowers standards rather then enhances them.

20. For example, people who did not support Communism had been treated as second-rate citizens.

21. Beatlemania Facts - 8: Teen movies were usually second rate, the Beatle's movie wasn't expected to be good

22. Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life.

23. Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate.

24. We also gave it slate tiles and a new Bargeboard which covered up the second-rate brick corbelling.

25. The danger is that while you put off the legwork, your money might be languishing in a second-rate account.

26. 9.16.4 = SB 190), and the Oedipus tragedy was presumably among the second-rate poems which Tacitus says that Caesar himself ‘in Bibliothecas rettulit’ (Dial

27. Your ignorance is why you will always be an oaf , oaf . And now, your weakness is why you will always be second rate. Goodbye, cretin.

28. 1919, Saki, ‘Fate’, The Toys of Peace: ‘I have yet to learn that my verses and my art Causerie are of second-rate quality,’ said Mrs

29. To keep Earth inhabitants away from the rest of the universe community, our planet was stuck way out in the boondocks at the rim of a second-rate galaxy.

30. In addition, victims of prejudice and discrimination may have trouble getting a job, or they may receive second-rate medical care, an inferior education, and fewer social privileges and legal rights.

31. 23 A party which, a little higher level villains who, inevitably partisan achievements several potential talent in all aspects of IQ less than their second-rate writers, for the right-hand man.