How To Use Second-rate In A Sentence
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a team of aging second-raters
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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.
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Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
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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
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A second-rate adaptation of the book eclipsed it; a first-rate readaptation, at the right moment, has rescued it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do old radio broadcasts, minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?
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Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
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You may be a second-rater, yet you write the first draft of history.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Far from passively accepting objectification as a second-rate climber because of her sex, she conceived her strong feminine gender identity as an asset.
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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.
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Duck confit has become such a workhorse of the second-rate suburban brasserie and high-street café chain that one almost hesitates to order it these days.
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Murillo is known in Asia to be a second-rate producer knocking off designs here and there.
Stylish Rack For All of You Wine Lovers
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We can make culture and journalism into second-rate activities, and spend centuries remixing the detritus of the 1960s and other eras from before individual creativity went out of fashion," he complains.
Maria Rodale: You Are Not a Gadget... Are You?
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But it was such a second-rate piece of work, and induced such an amazing sense of tedium, that I am not even going to mention its name.
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And these are the cases that we're most concerned about, where the current system puts them as a second-rate case.
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Despite being regarded as untouchably hip, the Sixties produced their fair share of second-rate songs, Neal admits.
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I know we're a backward second-rate country now, but let us have some crumbs from the cookie for old times 'sake.
An Apple a Day
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To be honest, it's left me feeling a little second-rate, a little less than cosmopolitan, a little untravelled and - even though I hate to admit it - dull.
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Notwithstanding the editor's condescension toward these ‘second-rate’ men, he recognizes the opportunity flash language provided for disguised communication.
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This seems like the suggestion of a second-rate Hollywood director, for the single reason that you cannot discharge a firearm in a pressurised environment, because there would be catastrophic decompression.
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After the best people leave, the second-rate people get promoted and they have a tendency to hire and promote third-rate people.
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A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
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Why is the second-rate part of a hero's corpus uncritically praised or else ignored to keep the hero's reputation unsullied.
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Lundgren never rises above second-rate and this one is no exception.
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Graeme Kent tells the story of how more than 30 fighters - the Great White Hopes, though most of them were no more than second-rate brawlers - who tried to dump the bumptious champion on his backside only to suffer that fate themselves.
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It is common to blame this tell-all culture on people who go on trashy talk shows, or second-rate celebrities desperate for publicity.
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Even more horrifying was the realization that I could not dismiss The Passion as a second-rate film.
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He wooed her with expensive gifts and sponsored her through Chica Med, a second-rate beauty pageant organizers concede was viewed as a cattle market by gangsters looking for new girls.
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For all his expertise, Mr Magee committed a blunder which the British Crown described at his trial as so elementary as ‘to shame any second-rate burglar’.
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To the Edinburgh literati who took him up after the success of his Kilmarnock edition of 1786 he played up to the image of the ‘heaven-taught ploughman’ as created by that second-rate poetaster Henry Mackenzie.
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His continued popularity as a writer is curious, given that he is widely acknowledged, within the historical fraternity, as decidedly second-rate.
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I believe Krauthammer called it 'an uncertain trumpet'. come to think of it, he looks a bit like a second-rate trumpet player. fifer
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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A few dozen of these political pariahs found employment, mostly in second-rate TV offerings where they were less likely to be spotted either by appearance or writing style.
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Couldn't they have picked a second-rate conservative historian or sociologist for the first prize?
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Their protean sound lifts them above the legions of second-rate math rockers who think it's enough simply to noodle around with shifting time signatures and obscure chords.
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Any second-rate magician knows most people will watch the hand that's moving, the hand the magician is looking at, and not the other hand.
Millions of White House e-mails recovered
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With his cultured right foot, he dominates the midfield, his integrity and swift moral purpose shading everyone else into the second-rate incompetents they probably know deep down that they are.
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I don't know anyone who is impressed with the Welsh Assembly; they all seem like very second-rate skivers.
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Its demimonde of second-rate showbiz performers, of fallen angels, pushers, pederasts, gays, dykes and straights (straightish, anyway) is of a world without boundaries, colliding and dangerous, in loveless America.
Welcome to The Wild Party ! Dangerous, Seedy ��� Fantastic
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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
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This is a second-rate novel, because the readers' interest lags when the plot develops.
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After a spell in the army, he developed this into a business taking second-rate acts to provincial Soviet cities.
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I don't want to write anything shoddy or second-rate just because it will get on.
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Where the first half of the show wore out the electro template, the second is suffused with the spirit of second-rate indie-rock.
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You may be a little puzzled that two of the country's biggest intelligences should be so preoccupied by such a trifling matter as the future of a second-rate footie outfit.
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Dutas can be engaged through the peel so special dolour should be exercised in regard to pregnant women or women second-rate to ripen into pregnant.
CALL FOR TESTIMONIALS
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She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.
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If anything can keep Huataoyao out of the ranks of second-rate tea houses touting dubious spiritual qualities, it is this.
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This stilted comedy of manners lacks a framework around which to dress itself and, subsequently, has the feel and look of a second-rate sketch show to it.
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Much of it has little or no depth at all and more often than not resembles a sort of second-rate 1930s dance-music!
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The film does little to rise above its second-rate pedigree.
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The songs are often second-rate and the performances are dire, like his shockingly inept vocal on the title track.
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Some of the biggest housing market blow-ups came courtesy of second-rate lenders that sold the loans to other borrowers—with most of the riskiest stuff backed by the U.S. government.
'Skin in the Game'
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Energy, vigour and emotion were what were missing most in the second-rate acting.
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At 60, however, having reached a nadir — he loses his job teaching fifth-grade history at a second-rate school and moves from his substantial place to a “rinky-dink starter apartment” — he gets a do-over.
Cover to Cover
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After a spell in the army, he developed this into a business taking second-rate acts to provincial Soviet cities.
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Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
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Or will we saddle our kids with debt, second-rate jobs, impossible interest rates, and a falling standard of living?
The Good Fight
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No, they should be worried that so many young girls are convinced, from an early age, that homemaking is demeaning and unmeaningful, and that mothers at home are second-rate.
Archive 2008-07-01
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An unambivalent critic of trash, she has said: ‘There is a moral obligation not to turn readers off with hyped, second-rate work.’
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It's like minor-league baseball, '' says Casey, a slog of mini-tours, often on second-rate courses in glamourless towns.
From The Rough
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The subliminal message was clear: see what you get from second-rate politicians, a second-rate parliament.
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We also gave it slate tiles and a new bargeboard which covered up the second-rate brick corbelling.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making
The Other Girls
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Frans Snyders's Concert of Birds hardly qualifies even as second-rate.
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We know that if the local party chooses a second-rater, he or she will still be elected.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition, the mixing is second-rate and unharmonious in places.
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I didn't want to be a second-rater.
The Sun
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Or are all those people in County Limerick to lose their homes and farms just to make way for a second-rate road?
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Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
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good" extends beyond volume, which means you'll want to avoid the dreaded "blogorrhea" -- aka incessant prattle about your jerk boss or second-rate love life.
Essays
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Neocons tell you that every second-rate nation is ready for democracy, if only we can topple their dictators.
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A nation of namby pambies whining about every two-bit bogeyman is just a second-rate nation of Chicken Littles.
David Ropeik: The Word: Feariness
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The alternative is that we will be left with universities run by second-rate academics and companies run by second-rate entrepreneurs.
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Georgia did remember, however, that being labeled a woman artist in the twenties was synonymous with being called second-rate.
Portrait of An Artist
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The carpenters and plasterers Michael Angelo employed would soon learn to perform the more mechanical part of his work, such as laying the intonaco, pricking the cartoons, and grinding colours, and as they could not have inserted into the work any tradition contrary to the new manner of the artist, would be preferred by him to second-rate artist assistants; no doubt, too, the boy he employed in household work would be made to help.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
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By stuffing their staging into a shabby-looking set roughly comparable in size to a second-rate nightclub, Terry Johnson and Tim Shortall, the director and set designer, have clipped away the tinsel and made it possible for the audience to focus on the relationship of Georges (Kelsey Grammer, still best known for "Frasier") and Albin (Douglas Hodge).
Size Matters
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The difference between an independent yeoman and a second-rate handyman is independence.
The Suicide Of Marlboro Man « Isegoria
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It's all US style news, sport and second-rate American dramas.
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Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mum Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy.
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The committee found that adults with intellectual disabilities are treated as second-rate citizens.
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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
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She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.
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Quite a few were shocked to see Russia transformed into a second-rate country, treated unceremoniously by Western powers.
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In addition, the mixing is second-rate and unharmonious in places.
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To be honest, it's left me feeling a little second-rate, a little less than cosmopolitan, a little untravelled and - even though I hate to admit it - dull.
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Surprisingly - despite the script's second-rate dramatics the rest of the time - the scene in the film when the affair starts is actually quite good.
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The attempt to resurrect capitalism in Russia foredooms it to the role of a second-rate power.
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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.
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She died in 1998, a classic example of artist as narcissist, which naturally makes her a second-rater.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I don't have to drag myself to the second-rate theater where this film is playing in Madison.
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Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
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Another soldier walks through, fingering the second-rate audio equipment fitted into the tackiest of green chipboard cabinets, fronted with shiny silver panels.
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That means challenging Scots to better themselves instead of meekly accepting shoddy and second-rate services.
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What had he expected, some -slapdash affair by a second-rate provincial medical examiner?
AMAGANSETT
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Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
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The characters don't so much speak as speechify, in arias out of second-rate literature.
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But in those second-rate towns with their third-rate lifestyles, punk had a localised life of its own.
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Suddenly, Brazilians had money to spend - but not on the outmoded, second-rate models that had been rolling off local assembly lines.
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Far from passively accepting objectification as a second-rate climber because of her sex, she conceived her strong feminine gender identity as an asset.
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The apartment was shabby, a cheapskate dwelling, second-rate and sliding rapidly downhill.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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The best films nearly always come from original scripts or second-rate books.
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Punters cashing in their pink pounds to the sound of second-rate pop groups is not really my thing.