second-rate

How To Use second-rate In A Sentence

• Yet before engaging in courteous battle of wits with the Welsh Windbag, I had seen the famous Silk pacing the small Robing Room at Lincoln Castle wracked with nerves before going into bat against an acknowledged second-rater of a judge. Archive 2007-07-29
• a team of aging second-raters
• Hampered by a name that was unpronounceable, together with a heavy accent, he was relegated to playing muscle-bound clods in a string of second-rate films.
• Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
• He added his two penn'orth to the discussion, saying that he habitually told his students it was better to read first-rate SF than second-rate science writing.' Archive 2010-01-01
• A second-rate adaptation of the book eclipsed it; a first-rate readaptation, at the right moment, has rescued it. Times, Sunday Times
• Do old radio broadcasts, minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?
• Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
• You may be a second-rater, yet you write the first draft of history. Times, Sunday Times
• France was made to disgorge the enormous gains she had made under Napoleon, but there was no attempt to reduce her to a second-rate power and she was speedily welcomed back into the comity of nations.